Secret Water. [Swallows and Amazons .] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
by RANSOME Arthur
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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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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- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46177
- Title
- Secret Water. [Swallows and Amazons .] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
- Author
- RANSOME Arthur
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape,
- Date Published
- [1939]
- Keywords
- children's, childrens, ransome, arthur ransome, swallows and amazons
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