Swallows and Amazons
$68.11
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
1 July 1992
Summary
A master storyteller, sympathetically in touch with real children and their interests, has created characters who are accepted as friends by children everywhere, not to mention plots which are eminently plausible and unexpected.
— SUNDAY TIMES, in an article listing Swallows and Amazons among ‘99 Best Books for Children.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224606318 |
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| ISBN-10: | 022460631X |
| Author: | Arthur Ransome |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 1 July 1992 |
| Weight: | 439g |
| Dimensions: | 205mm x 145mm x 35mm |
| Series: | Swallows and Amazons |
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Critics 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””“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”
About The Author
Arthur Ransome
Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884 and went to school at Rugby. He was in Russia in 1917, 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 1929, 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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