Swallows and Amazons
by Arthur Michell Ransome, Helen Edmundson, and Neil Hannon
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This is one of the finest books for children, both boys and girls. In 1928, four children, aged 7 to 12 (?), whose father is in the navy, vacation with their mother and baby sister on a lake in the north of England. They borrow a 13' sailboat (the Swallow) from the farmer with whom they are staying, and camp on an island in the lake. They meet two girls (the Amazons), about the same age, and have realistic adventures together. The first in a series of twelve books, maybe the best kids' books ever written.
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Adventure and adventurers, Boats and boating, Children's camping and sailing adventures., Children's stories, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Sailing, Swallows (Fictitious characters), Camping, Amazons (Fictitious characters : Ransome), Adventure stories, Children's fiction, Boats and boating, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fictionPlaces
Great Britain, Lake district.Times
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Originally published, London, Cape, 1930.
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