Pigeon Post - Couverture rigide

Ransome, Arthur

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0224021249 ISBN 13 : 9780224021241

Editeur : Jonathan Cape, 1983

Synopsis

‘Barbecued billygoats!’

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 Company must stake their claim before their dreaded rival...

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape
• Date d'édition: 1983
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0224021249
• ISBN 13: 9780224021241
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384
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