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The Swallows and the Amazons

Swallows and Amazons Ransome Spurrier 1997 book cover

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Author(s):Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):Steven Spurrier
Publisher(s): Amazon Publications
Year Published: 1997
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: 279
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 63275206

Description

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.

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Other Editions

Swallows and Amazons (1930)

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 (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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