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We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea
Arthur Ransome
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Description for We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea
Hardcover. The Swallows are staying on the Suffolk coast while they wait for their father to return home from China. But although the harbour is bursting with bobbing yachts, barges and steamers, this year there's no chance of any sailing for the landlocked Swallows. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: YFA. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 206 x 142 x 33. Weight in Grams: 488.
'Like to spend a night in the Goblin?’
The Swallows are staying on the Suffolk coast while they wait for their father to return home from China. But although the harbour is bursting with bobbing yachts, barges and steamers, this year there's no chance of any sailing for the landlocked Swallows. That is until they rescue young Jim Brading and his boat the Goblin from a sticky situation and to their delight are recruited as crew members. Mother agrees they can go, on one condition – they absolutely must not sail out past Beach End Buoy and into the open sea…
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224021234
SKU
V9780224021234
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About 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. Ransome died in 1967. He and his wife Evgenia lie buried in the churchyard of St Paul's Church, Rusland, in the southern Lake District.
Reviews for We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea
This book is Ransome at the top of his form.
OBSERVER
The book is a record of an uncovenanted voyage, which ended in Holland, of the rain and wind, the darkness and the wild water, the escapes from buoys and from ships crossing in the night, the courage and resource of the children.
EVENING STANDARD
Perhaps the best of all ... Just what does happen is told with all the wealth of practical detail and satisfying sense of reality which make Mr Ransome so unfailingly successful.
PUNCH
The most exciting of the whole Swallows and Amazons series.
NEW STATESMAN
The seventh of the Arthur Ransome books, and I really think it is the best.
SUNDAY TIMES
OBSERVER
The book is a record of an uncovenanted voyage, which ended in Holland, of the rain and wind, the darkness and the wild water, the escapes from buoys and from ships crossing in the night, the courage and resource of the children.
EVENING STANDARD
Perhaps the best of all ... Just what does happen is told with all the wealth of practical detail and satisfying sense of reality which make Mr Ransome so unfailingly successful.
PUNCH
The most exciting of the whole Swallows and Amazons series.
NEW STATESMAN
The seventh of the Arthur Ransome books, and I really think it is the best.
SUNDAY TIMES