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Swallows & Amazons / by Arthur Ransome ; illustrated by the Author with help from Miss Nancy Blackett
Bib ID 693887
Format BookBook
Author
Ransome, Arthur, 1884-1967
 
Description Sydney : Australasian Publishing Company in association with Jonathan Cape London, 1949 
374 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., maps ; 21 cm. 
Summary

Some very imaginative children spend a summer camping on an island in the middle of an English lake. They sail on the lake and pretend they are in exotic parts of the world and, as a result, have many exciting adventures.

Notes

Maps on lining papers.

For children.

Subjects Swallows (Fictitious characters) - Juvenile fiction.  |  Amazons (Fictitious characters) - Juvenile fiction.  |  Imagination in children - Juvenile fiction.  |  Brothers and sisters - Juvenile fiction.  |  Self-reliance in children - Juvenile fiction.  |  Sailing - England - Juvenile fiction.
Form/genre Adventure stories.  |  Children's stories, English.
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