Arthur Ransome

Broschiertes Buch

Coot Club

Beschreibung

Tom Dudgeon has cast off a motor cruiser from its moorings to protect a coot's nest, but now the cruiser is searching high and low for him - even offering a reward. You couldn't get a better sailor than Tom but can he really stay one jump ahead of his pursuers long enough to complete the voyage?

Autor

Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in l884 and went to school at Rugby. He was in Russia in l917, and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian. After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District with his Russian wife where, in l929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. And so began a writing career which has produced some of the real children's treasures of all time. In 1936 he won the first ever Carnegie Medal for his book, Pigeon Post.

Produktdetails

• Swallows And Amazons
• Verlag: Penguin Random House Children's UK
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9780099427186
• ISBN-10: 0099427184
• Artikelnr.: 22204636