Swallows And Amazons

ISBN: NI011288
Author: Arthur Ransome
Description:
This book is about sailing, fishing, swimming, camping, and piratical exploits on an uncharted lake (which bears a resemblance to Windermere in the Lake District). It makes the sweet freshness of the early mornings on Wild Cat Island, the long sunshiney days of adventures, and the satisfactory evenings of plotting round the camp fire seem so real that , as one critic has said, 'you don't realize it is written at all, the adventures seem to occur to oneself'. And if you think you don't care about boats or outdoor pleasures, you will become so absorbed in the characters of the people who do enjoy them in this book that you'll find yourself changing your mind before you are halfway through. When Swallows and Amazons was first published, in 1930, the reviewers said that it would one day become a children's classic. Now it is, and we think to be discovering it for the first time must be as exciting as a Christmas morning; for when you have finished this book there are eleven others just as good waiting for you.

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About this copy: This edition published 1965. Creasing to spine, front covers torn at spine, dirty marks on cover, name written inside. All pages intact. Fine as a reading copy.

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