- Adventure and adventurers, Camping, Fiction, Islands
The Swallows are abandoned in one of the most interesting parts of England: the east coast north of the mouth of the Thames and south of the Norfolk Broads. Their assignment is to map the tidal flats. Aided by the Amazons and the Tribe of the Eels, they succeed just in time, before being rescued.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Arthur Michell Ransome
- First published
- 1939
- Pages
- 401
- Publisher
- D.R. Godine, Red Fox, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780224606387
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An English author and journalist, best known for writing the <i>Swallows and Amazons</i> series of children's books about the school-holiday adventures of children (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ransome>Wikipedia</a>).
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