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SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS
SWALLOWDALE
PETER DUCK
WINTER HOLIDAY
COOT CLUB
PIGEON POST
WE DIDN’T MEAN TO GO TO SEA
SECRET WATER
THE BIG SIX
MISSEE LEE
THE PICTS & THE MARTYRS
GREAT NORTHERN?
COOTS IN THE NORTH & OTHER STORIES
RACUNDRA’S FIRST CRUISE
ROD AND LINE (FISHING ESSAYS)
OLD PETER’S RUSSIAN TALES
THE WAR OF THE BIRDS & THE BEASTS
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ARTHUR RANSOME
(ed. Rupert Hart-Davis)
ARTHUR RANSOME ON FISHING
(introduced by Jeremy Swift)
SIGNALLING FROM MARS: LETTERS
(ed. Hugh Brogan)
LANDING ON THE HARD
ARTHUR RANSOME
Illustrated by the Author
“Grab a chance and you won’t be sorry for a might-have-been.”
COMMANDER TED WALKER, R.N.
A Godine Storyteller
DAVID R. GODINE · PUBLISHER
BOSTON
This is a Godine Storyteller
published in 1994 by
DAVID R. GODINE · Publisher
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Jaffrey, New Hampshire 03452
First Published in 1937 by Jonathan Cape Ltd.;
revised edition published in 1983.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Ransome, Arthur, 1884‒1967. We didn’t mean to go to sea /
Arthur Ransome; illustrated by the author.
p. cm. —
(A Godine Storyteller)
“First published in 1937 by Jonathan Cape Ltd.; revised edition published in 1983”—T.p. verso. Summary: While on vacation in East Anglia, four children, whose previous sailing experience is limited to dinghies, accidentally drift out to the North Sea after the rising tide causes their cutter to drag anchor. [1. Sailing—Fiction. 2. Sea stories. 3. England—Fiction]
I.Title. II. Series.
PZ7.RI75WE 1994 [fic]—dc20
93-38904 CIP AC
OLD SOFTCOVER ISBN 0-87923-991-3
CURRENT SOFTCOVER ISBN 978-1-56792-487-9
EBOOK ISBN 978-1-56792-499-2
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