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Swallows and Amazons

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Author(s):Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):Steven Spurrier
Publisher(s): Jonathan Cape Ltd
Year Published: 1930
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Boys Growing Up
British
Camping
Fiction - novel
Girls Growing Up
Holidays
Sea Stories
Age Range: Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books
Pages: 350
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 25432540

Description

The four Swallows receive permission from their sailor father to sail by themselves on one of the English lakes in a telegram: ‘BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.’

Other Editions

Swallows and Amazons (1931)

The four Swallows receive permission from their sailor father to sail by themselves on one of the English lakes in a telegram: ‘BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.’

Read online at archive.org. 

Publisher: J. B. Lippincott & Co.
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Swallows and Amazons (1931)

The four Swallows receive permission from their sailor father to sail by themselves on one of the English lakes in a telegram: ‘BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.’

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
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Swallows and Amazons (1938)

The four Swallows receive permission from their sailor father to sail by themselves on one of the English lakes in a telegram: ‘BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.’

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
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The Swallows and the Amazons (1997)

This is a transcription of the original manuscript of Swallows and Amazons along with the original illustrations by Steven Spurrier which, aside from the dust jacket, were not used in the first edition as Ransome objected to them.

Publisher: Amazon Publications
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