Paperback. 333pp. The seventh in the Swallows and Amazons series set in Suffolk and involving a voyage from Pin Mill on the River Orwell to Flushing, Netherlands. We have a large number of vintage Puffins in stock. Lightly creasing to spine. Pages are tanned. Date in ink to first prelim. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy.

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Title: We Didn't Mean to go to Sea
Publisher: Puffin
Publication Date: 1973
ISBN 10: 0140304142
ISBN 13: 9780140304145
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good+, sound copy

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We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea (Puffin Books) Arthur Ransome

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Arthur Ransome was born in 1884. He was in Russia in 1917 and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian. After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District of England with his Russian wife where, in 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. Thus began a writing career that has produced some of the best children s literature of all time.

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