Missee Lee (Swallows And Amazons)

Author: Ransome, Arthur

Brand: Red Fox

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 336

Release Date: 01-10-2001

model number: 9780099427254

Part Number: 9780099427254

Details: Product Description


Nancy Blackett, the terror of the seas, has finally met a real pirate - the tiny, pistol-carrying Missee Lee, who has rescued them after their shipwreck off the coast of China. The only trouble is she wants to keep them. forever.


Review


There is plenty of excitement, a little danger, a quality of thinking, planning and fun which is delightful and stimulating ―
Times Literary Supplement

One of his best . . . In a class by itself ―
Guardian

He makes a tale of adventure a handbook to adventure ―
Observer


From the Back Cover


“He makes a tale of adventure a handbook to adventure.” –
Observer

“There is plenty of excitement, a little danger, a quality of thinking, planning and fun which is delightful and stimulating.” –
TLS


About the Author


Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884 and went to school at Rugby. He was in Russia in 1917, and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian. After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District with his Russian wife where, in 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. And so began a writing career which has produced some of the real children's treasures of all time. In 1936 he won the first ever Carnegie Medal for his book, Pigeon Post. Ransome died in 1967. He and his wife Evgenia lie buried in the churchyard of St Paul's Church, Rusland, in the southern Lake District.

EAN: 9780099427254

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.0 x 1.3 inches

Languages: English