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$36.80
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
7 December 2001
Summary
A timeless classic, beautifully rejacketed. One of twelve Arthur Ransome titles reissued this month.
The Swallows and Amazons are sailing with Nancy and Peggy’s Uncle Jim (better known as Captain Flint) when their hired deckhand tells them a tale of his younger days - a tale to set pulses racing and hopes shooting sky high. Soon their boat is on its way to a Caribbean treasure hunt and they find themselves up against shark, storm, earthquake - and the vilest pirate who ever eavesdropp…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099427162 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099427168 |
| Author: | Arthur Ransome |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Red Fox |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 7 December 2001 |
| Weight: | 302g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Swallows And Amazons |
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It is so well written that you don’t realise that it is written at all. The best children’s story – Hugh Walpole * Observer *
About The Author
Arthur Ransome
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.
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