Swallows and Amazons
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| Author(s): | Arthur Ransome |
| Illustrator(s): | Arthur Ransome Clifford Webb |
| Publisher(s): | Jonathan Cape Ltd |
| Year Published: | 1938 |
| Type: | Hardcover |
| Genre: | Boys Growing Up British Camping Fiction - Novel Girls Growing Up Holidays Sea Stories |
| Age Range: | Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books |
| Pages: | 375 |
| This is an | All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB) |
| OCLC: | 810529916 |
Description
The four Swallows receive permission from their sailor father to sail by themselves on one of the English lakes in a telegram: ‘BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.’
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Swallows and Amazons (1930)
The four Swallows receive permission from their sailor father to sail by themselves on one of the English lakes in a telegram: ‘BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.’
Swallows and Amazons (1931)
The four Swallows receive permission from their sailor father to sail by themselves on one of the English lakes in a telegram: ‘BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.’
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Swallows and Amazons (1931)
The four Swallows receive permission from their sailor father to sail by themselves on one of the English lakes in a telegram: ‘BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.’
The Swallows and the Amazons (1997)
This is a transcription of the original manuscript of Swallows and Amazons along with the original illustrations by Steven Spurrier which, aside from the dust jacket, were not used in the first edition as Ransome objected to them.
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