Pigeon Post

Informationen zum Autor Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884 and went to school at Rugby. 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 with his Russian wife where, in 1929, 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. Ransome died in 1967. He and his wife Evgenia lie buried in the churchyard of St Paul's Church, Rusland, in the southern Lake District. Klappentext Arthur Ransome's timeless tale, now in a beautiful }Vintage Classics{ edition. Ransome has been described as the 1930s equivalent of JK Rowling, with the }Swallows & Amazons{ series having sold millions of copies since its original publication. Ages: 9 Zusammenfassung Can you imagine finding gold? That's just what the Swallows and Amazons and Dick and Dorothea decide to hunt for in the hills high above the lake. But it's a hot and dry summer and water is in scarce supply. Worse still for the troubled campers, they have competition: Squashy Hat. Anybody can see he is a prospector. And talk about squashy hats.

Product details

• Authors: Arthur Ransome, Ransome Arthur
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 11
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.03.2013
• EAN: 9780099582540
• ISBN: 978-0-09-958254-0
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 188 mm x 34 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Fiction > Narrative literature; JUVENILE FICTION / Classics, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction, swallows and amazons; sailing; boats; the lake district