- Adventure and adventurers, Boats and boating, Children's camping and sailing adventures., Children's stories
This is one of the finest books for children, both boys and girls. In 1928, four children, aged 7 to 12 (?), whose father is in the navy, vacation with their mother and baby sister on a lake in the north of England.
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Classical in form, earnest, warm and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Arthur Michell Ransome
- First published
- 1930
- Pages
- 362
- Publisher
- Red Fox, Amulet Books, JonathanCape
- Editions
- 84
- Language
- hun, Swedish, French, cze
- ISBN
- 9780552212229
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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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