Secret Water
by Ransome, Arthur
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good, missing d/j, green boards clean, spine faded with some scuffing and bumping, gilt titling clear; both gutters loose but bi
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1941. 1st (5th imp). hardback. Good, missing d/j, green boards clean, spine faded with some scuffing and bumping, gilt titling clear; both gutters loose but binding intact; pages unmarked and tight; wartime papers. Colour maps on pastedowns good. wartime standard papers.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). Swallows & Amazons Book 8. Originally published in 1939, John, Susan, Titty and Roger, the crew of the Swallow, take on the job of mapping the mass of small islands round Pin Mill while living on the biggest one. But who are the mysterious savages who lurk in the islands - and is the tribal totem they find in their campsite a threat of attack. ?
Synopsis
Secret Water is the eighth book in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books. It was published in 1939. This book is set in and around Hamford Water in Essex, close to the resort town of Walton-on-the-Naze. It brings the Swallows and the Amazons together and introduces a new group of characters, the Eels and the Mastodon. Ransome used to sail to Hamford Water, an area of tidal salt marshes and low-lying islands, in his yacht Nancy Blackett.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC54881
- Title
- Secret Water
- Author
- Ransome, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good, missing d/j, green boards clean, spine faded with some scuffing and bumping, gilt titling clear; both gutters loose but bi
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st (5th imp)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1941
- Pages
- 380
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fiction, young people, Ransome
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8\"\" x 5_\"\")
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