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Pigeon Post
Arthur Ransome
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Description for Pigeon Post
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: YFA. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 172 x 189 x 34. Weight in Grams: 366.
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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! The children have never seen squashier. Just who is he and what sort of traps is he laying? Using pigeons to carry messages, braving dangerous mines and fires, the Swallows, Amazons and D’s Mining ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099582540
SKU
V9780099582540
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99-99
About Arthur Ransome
Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884. He had an adventurous life - as a baby in he was carried by his father to the top of the Old Man of Coniston, a peak that is 2,276ft high! He went to Russia in 1913 to study folklore and in 1914, at the start of World War I he became ... Read more
Reviews for Pigeon Post
A truly wonderful book by a gifted and now unforgivably neglected children's writer
Times Educational Supplement
In its own class, and wearing several gold stars for distinction. Pigeon Post stands head and shoulders above the average adventure book for and of children
The Times
There is plenty of excitement, a little danger, a quality of thinking, ... Read more
Times Educational Supplement
In its own class, and wearing several gold stars for distinction. Pigeon Post stands head and shoulders above the average adventure book for and of children
The Times
There is plenty of excitement, a little danger, a quality of thinking, ... Read more