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While on vacation in East Anglia, four children, whose previous sailing experience is limited to dinghies, accidentally drift out to the North Sea after the rising tide causes their cutter to drag anchor.
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Sea stories, Sailing, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Navigation, Yachts, Children's fiction, Sailing, fiction, England, fiction, Swallows (Fictitious characters), Amazons (Fictitious characters : Ransome), Adventure stories, Swallows, fiction, Boats and boating, fiction, Europe, fiction, Boats and boatingPlaces
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"First published in 1937 by Jonathan Cape Ltd.; revised edition published in 1983"--T.p. verso.
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The Swallows, visiting on the east coast of England, stand watch on a small cruising sailboat for the owner and drag anchor and cross the Channel in a gale. Wonderful detail about sailing, and the fact that it takes place 85 years ago doesn't matter.
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