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We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea
de Arthur Ransome
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good
- Librería
-
Richford, Vermont, United States
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London, Great Britain: Jonathan Cape, 1937. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Hard Cover, No Dust Jacket. Very Good Condition. Clean Pages. Solid Binding. Decorated Endpapers. In This Latest Adventure (Following Pigeon Post, Winner Of The Carnegie Medal), The Walker Family Has Come To Harwich To Wait For Commander Walker's Return. As Usual, The Children Can't Stay Away From Boats, And This Time They Meet Young Jim Brading, Skipper Of The Well-Found Sloop Goblin. But Fun Turns To High Drama When The Anchor Drags, And The Four Young Sailors Find Themselves Drifting Out To Sea - Sweeping Across To Holland In The Midst Of A Full Gale! As In All Of Ransome's Books, The Emphasis Is On Self-Reliance, Courage, And Resourcefulness. We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea Is A Story To Warm Any Mariner's Heart. Full Of Nautical Lore And Adventure, It Will Appeal To Young Armchair Sailors And Season Sailors Alike.
Sinopsis
ARTHUR RANSOME was born in Leeds in 1884. He had an adventurous life -- as a baby he was carried by his father to the top of the Old Man of Coniston, a peak that is 2,276 ft high! He went to Russia in 1913 to study folklore and in 1914, at the start of World War I he became a foreign correspondent for the Daily News . In 1917 when the Russian Revolution began he became a journalist and was a special correspondent of the Guardian . He played chess with Lenin and married Trotsky's personal secretary, Evgenia Petrovna Shelepina. On his return to England, he bought a cottage near Windermere in the Lake District and began writing children's stories. He published the first of his children's classics, the twelve Swallows and Amazons books, in 1930. In 1936 he won the first ever Carnegie Medal for his book, Pigeon Post . He died in 1967.
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- Librería
- Livres Norrois
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 112705
- Título
- We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea
- Autor
- Arthur Ransome
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Editorial
- Jonathan Cape
- Lugar de publicación
- London, Great Britain
- Fecha de publicación
- 1937
- Páginas
- 351
- Catálogos del vendedor
- English books;
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