Review
"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.
"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.
Book Description
A timeless classic, beautifully rejacketed. One of twelve Arthur Ransome titles reissued this month
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.
Product Description
Another adventure by the author of "Swallows and Amazons".
From the Back Cover
The Swallows and Amazons have finally met a real pirate - the tiny, pistol-carrying Missee Lee, who has rescued them after their shipwreck off the coast of China. The only trouble is she wants to keep them... forever.
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 Martyres
Great Northern?
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.About the Author
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.