We Didn't Mean To GoToSea.
by Arthur Ransome
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0224021230
- ISBN 13
- 9780224021234
- Seller
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Ilminster, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London .UK: Jonathan Cape, 1983. Book. Illus. by Arthur Ransome. Very Good. Hardcover. Revised edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This book is a record of an uncovenanted voyage, which ended in Holland, of rain and wind, the darkness and the wild water, the escapes from buoys and from ships crossing in the night, the courage and resource of the children. The boards, text block and dust jacket are all square, tight and clean. This book are photographed as proof against in-transit damage.
Synopsis
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
- powellbooksofsomerset.co.uk (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 09169
- Title
- We Didn't Mean To GoToSea.
- Author
- Arthur Ransome
- Illustrator
- Arthur Ransome
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Revised edition
- ISBN 10
- 0224021230
- ISBN 13
- 9780224021234
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London .UK
- Date Published
- 1983
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- Arthur Ransome, We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea. Children's Classic's.
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