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"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 the 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 the Paperback edition.
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"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"
"There is plenty of excitement, a little danger, a quality of thinking, planning and fun which is delightful and stimulating." -"TLS"
"From the Trade Paperback edition." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format: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.
My favorite teacher raved about these books, I raved about them and in turn my son raved about them.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format: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.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format: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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Kindle edition reviewed
Wonderful! At last one of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series arrives for Kindle users; and it has been very well done. Read more
Published 12 months ago by I. Proctor
Arguably the best in the series
This is for me by far the best in the whole series. All twelve books would earn five stars in my view, but The Picts and the Martyrs, coming as it does just before our last... Read more
Published on 27 Feb 2008 by K. Howard
Unexpectedly moving
One of the very great things about Ransome's series of Swallows and Amazons books is the subtle way in which the characters grow older. Read more
Published on 2 July 2007 by P. A. L. Rush
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