Great Northern? (Red Fox Older Fiction) [Paperback]

"He makes a tale of adventure a handbook to adventure." -"Observer"
"There is plenty of excitement, a little danger, a quality of thinking, planning and fun which is delightful and stimulating." -"TLS" --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

A timeless classic, beautifully rejacketed. One of twelve Arthur Ransome titles reissued this month --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Another adventure by the author of "Swallows and Amazons".

Dick's birdwatching discovery turns a pleasant cruise of the Hebrides into a desperate chase. Soon the Swallows and Amazons are busy dodging the savage natives and evading the ruthless pursuit of a fanatic egg-collector who's determined to kill a pair of rare birds.

Swallows and Amazons

Swallowdale

Peter Duck

Winter Holiday

Coot Club

Pigeon Post

We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea

Secret Water

The Big Six

Missee Lee

The Picts and the Martyrs

Great Northern?

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in l884 and went to school at Rugby. He was in Russia in l917, and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian. After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District with his Russian wife where, in l929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. And so began a writing career which has produced some of the real children's treasures of all time. In 1936 he won the first ever Carnegie Medal for his book, Pigeon Post. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.