Publisher's Synopsis
Up the Wrekin, here we go. Barley, the clever Border-Collie dog, Basil, his nephew and Mick, their human friend have an exciting adventure and learn fascinating things about the Wrekin, a Shropshire beauty spot of fabulous rural charm, and a place of legends and wild imagination. When Mick runs into an old friend and local hero Gary, they start chatting - and the two dogs rummage around for an adventure... Barley and Basil soon find themselves involved in a dangerous stand-off between a red deer stag and a tiny meadow pipit bird. The stag is very distressed and Barley is not sure whether he's friendly or not. But the stag is standing between Barley and a meadow pipit in serious life-threatening trouble - and she has a nest full of newly born chicks. Barley has to think quickly of a way to
