Great Northern? (Swallows & Amazons #12)
Author(s): Arthur Ransome
Dick's birdwatching discovery turns the cruise of the Sea Bear into a desperate chase. The Swallows and Amazons have to prove the facts of the case, and evade the natives and an egg-collector, determined to kill a pair of rare birds and steal the credit.
Product Information
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.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Random House
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.393
- : 31 August 2001
- : 197mm X 129mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Arthur Ransome
- : Paperback
- : 432
- : illustrations