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We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea

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Author(s):Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):Arthur Ransome
Publisher(s): Jonathan Cape Ltd
Year Published: 1937
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Boys Growing Up
British
Fiction - Novel
Girls Growing Up
Holidays
Sea Stories
Age Range: Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books
Pages: 351
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 504473804

Description

The Swallows are invited to sail in Goblin with Jim Brady. When a fog comes up and the skipper doesn’t return and the rising tide starts the anchor to dragging, suddenly they find themselves outside Harwich Harbor, passing the Beach End buoy and well out in the North Sea.

 

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We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea (1938)

The Swallows are invited to sail in Goblin with Jim Brady. When a fog comes up and the skipper doesn’t return and the rising tide starts the anchor to dragging, suddenly they find themselves outside Harwich Harbor, passing the Beach End buoy and well out in the North Sea.

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Publisher: Macmillan
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