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Peter Duck
Arthur Ransome
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Description for Peter Duck
Hardcover. The Swallows and Amazons, as well as Captain Flint and the ancient able seaman Peter Duck, set sail on the Wild Cat bound for the Channel. But they are shadowed by the Viper, manned by none other than Black Jake - a beastly pirate with a dark plan. Can the children race ahead and uncover the buried treasure before the pirate? Num Pages: 416 pages, 1. BIC Classification: YFA. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 205 x 146 x 38. Weight in Grams: 576.
`Why do they call him Black Jake? Is it because of his hair?' Titty asked. `Because of his heart' said Peter Duck The Swallows and Amazons, as well as Captain Flint and the ancient able seaman Peter Duck, set sail on the Wild Cat bound for the Channel. But they are shadowed by the Viper, manned by none other than Black Jake - a beastly pirate with a dark plan. Can the children race ahead and uncover the buried treasure before the pirate? Can they survive storms, earthquakes, crabs and even a waterspout and make it ... Read more
`Why do they call him Black Jake? Is it because of his hair?' Titty asked. `Because of his heart' said Peter Duck The Swallows and Amazons, as well as Captain Flint and the ancient able seaman Peter Duck, set sail on the Wild Cat bound for the Channel. But they are shadowed by the Viper, manned by none other than Black Jake - a beastly pirate with a dark plan. Can the children race ahead and uncover the buried treasure before the pirate? Can they survive storms, earthquakes, crabs and even a waterspout and make it ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1983
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224021258
SKU
V9780224021258
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99-99
About Arthur Ransome
Arthur Ransome was born in 1884. 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 of England with his Russian wife where, in 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. Thus began a writing career that has produced some of the ... Read more
Reviews for Peter Duck
In many ways Peter Duck is the best of the series.
Guardian
So well written that you don't realize that it is written at all. The adventures just seem to occur to oneself.
Hugh Walpole, Observer
This is the real stuff of imagination which might so easily happen. . . all the ... Read more
Guardian
So well written that you don't realize that it is written at all. The adventures just seem to occur to oneself.
Hugh Walpole, Observer
This is the real stuff of imagination which might so easily happen. . . all the ... Read more