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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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Desperate times for the Amazon pirates.,
By W. Weinstein "William Weinstein" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Picts and the Martyrs: or Not Welcome At All (Swallows And Amazons) (Hardcover)
One of the greatest of the series, this book unusually partners the Ds and the Amazons, with the Swallows not arriving until the day after the last page. As usual Nancy and Peggy are in dire straits, this time thanks to a surprise visit from the dreaded Great Aunt. With their guests, Dick and Dorothea just arrived, they are forced to take extreme measures to keep life on, what they consider, an even keel. Dragged into their web of deception are a myriad of "Natives" including the doctor, Squashy Hat, Cook and the postman. As usual, there is continual suspense and excitement and once again we are transported to a better world and left the better for it.
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a great adventure, a must read and an all round good book .,
By siobhan moran(blondebombeshell@hotmail.com) (Perthshire, SCOTLAND) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Picts and the Martyrs: or Not Welcome At All (Swallows And Amazons) (Paperback)
in this book dick and dot go to stay with the amazons while the amazons mother is away with captin flint (uncle jim) on a cruse getting better after being ill with influenza. and they get their first boat of their own: the SCARAB. but just as they get there the dreaded G.A. (great aunt) hears that the amazons mother is away and comes to stay!dick and dot are swept away to the dogs home, a hut in the woods. the amazon pirates must turn into martyrs and for the sake of their poor mother keep the G.A. happy.dick and dot must be picts hidden from the G.A. secretly sailing with the amazones while the G.A. is not there. they must survive storms, work with timothy on the houseboat, catch fish with their hands, skin gut and cook a rabit, burgle a house, make a secret harbour, make their own letter box,stop the docter, postman and timothy and still hide from the G.A. but will they get caught? then the G.A. goes missing what has happed? what will happen? what can they do? this is not the best of the arthur ransome books and does not include the swallows
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This review is from: The Picts and the Martyrs: or Not Welcome At All (Swallows And Amazons) (Hardcover)
The "Swallows and Amazons" series documents credible adventures of childern in the English Lake District, and the East Anglian Broads in more a gentle age before the Second World War. Though the context is dated, this does not spoil the appeal of these exceptional adventures, all of which focus on the exploits of top junior/lower secondary school children in their seemingly endless summer holidays on the water, boating, fishing, camping and setting wrongs to right. The girls are as strong, as competent and as inteligent as their brothers, so it scores on that level too.
My favorite teacher raved about these books, I raved about them and in turn my son raved about them.
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