Secret Water
$30.07
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
4 January 2002
Summary
A timeless classic, beautifully rejacketed. One of twelve Arthur Ransome titles reissued this month.
John, Susan, Titty and Roger, the crew of the Swallow, take on the job of mapping the mass of small islands round Pin Mill while living on the biggest one. But who are the mysterious savages who lurk in the islands - and is the tribal totem they find in their campsite a threat of attack?
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099427230 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099427230 |
| Author: | Arthur Ransome |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Red Fox |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 4 January 2002 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 26mm |
| Series: | Swallows And Amazons |
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A magnificent exploring adventure * Times Literary Supplement *
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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