{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "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."}, "title": "We didn't mean to go to sea", "covers": [674662, 12365205, 11741809, 12664035], "subject_places": ["Ipswitch", "English Channel", "Holland", "England"], "first_publish_date": "1937", "key": "/works/OL2459832W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL4342369A"}}], "subject_times": ["1936"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["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 boating"], "latest_revision": 16, "revision": 16, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T23:43:33.296604"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-02-25T14:22:45.225125"}}