Puffin Books/Penguin Group, 1969-01-01. Paperback. Near Fine. Clean, tight and unmarked text, appears unread. No P.O. name. Text has light toning due to age. Tiny closed tear along edge of back cover, else As New. TRACKING INCLUDED ON ALL DOMESTIC AND PARTICIPATING INT'L DESTINATIONS. Trust an experienced independent bookseller since 1988. Orders are shipped daily via USPS with delivery confirmation.

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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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Bookseller: The Prince and Pauper (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 107943
Title: We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea
Author: Ransome, Arthur
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0140304142
ISBN 13: 9780140304145
Publisher: Puffin Books/Penguin Group
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1969-01-01
Bookseller catalogs: Series;
X weight: 8 oz

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