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The Picts and the Martyrs: or Not Welcome At All
Arthur Ransome
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Description for The Picts and the Martyrs: or Not Welcome At All
Paperback. The Ds can't wait to go and stay with Nancy and Peggy in the Lake District during the summer holidays. But when the Amazons' dreadful Great Aunt invites herself to stay too, the summer is threatened with dullness. Staying indoors and reading poetry is not what anyone had in mind. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: YFA. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 190 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 380.
The Ds can't wait to go and stay with Nancy and Peggy in the Lake District during the summer holidays. But when the Amazons’ dreadful Great Aunt invites herself to stay too, the summer is threatened with dullness. Staying indoors and reading poetry is not what anyone had in mind. To save the Ds from total boredom, the Amazons arrange for their friends to stay in a tumble-down hut in the woods. And as long as no one discovers they're there they can sail all summer long...
In the Backstory you can learn how to make a campfire!
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Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099589372
SKU
V9780099589372
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About Arthur Ransome
Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884. He had an adventurous life - as a baby in he was carried by his father to the top of the Old Man of Coniston, a peak that is 2,276ft high! He went to Russia in 1913 to study folklore and in 1914, at the start of World War I he became ... Read more
Reviews for The Picts and the Martyrs: or Not Welcome At All
Stands out in triumph. It is firm, intelligent, in tune with twentieth-century mentality and well-written
Times Literary Supplement
Quite up to the best standards of its predecessors, and to all old Ransome devotees the return to the lake of the first novels gives an added pleasure
Glasgow Herald
Times Literary Supplement
Quite up to the best standards of its predecessors, and to all old Ransome devotees the return to the lake of the first novels gives an added pleasure
Glasgow Herald