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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
Hardcover. 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 the Amazons had in mind. Series: Swallows and Amazons. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 5AJ; YQE. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 199 x 150 x 31. Weight in Grams: 444.
The poor old Amazons become Martyrs and the Ds Picts living in the woods, in Arthur Ransome's 11th adventure. 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 the Amazons had in mind. To save the Ds from the same fate they organise for them to stay in the Dogs' Home, a tumble-down hut in the woods. As long as no one discovers ... Read more
The poor old Amazons become Martyrs and the Ds Picts living in the woods, in Arthur Ransome's 11th adventure. 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 the Amazons had in mind. To save the Ds from the same fate they organise for them to stay in the Dogs' Home, a tumble-down hut in the woods. As long as no one discovers ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1984
Series
Swallows and Amazons
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224606417
SKU
V9780224606417
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99-26
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 Amazon s. Thus began a writing career that has produced some of the ... 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