Secret Water
by RANSOME, Arthur
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0224606387
- ISBN 13
- 9780224606387
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
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Synopsis
Secret Water is the eighth book in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books. It was published in 1939. This book is set in and around Hamford Water in Essex, close to the resort town of Walton-on-the-Naze. It brings the Swallows and the Amazons together and introduces a new group of characters, the Eels and the Mastodon. Ransome used to sail to Hamford Water, an area of tidal salt marshes and low-lying islands, in his yacht Nancy Blackett.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mainly Fiction (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 038506
- Title
- Secret Water
- Author
- RANSOME, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint.
- ISBN 10
- 0224606387
- ISBN 13
- 9780224606387
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2007
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
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- Reprint
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- Fine
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