Secret Water [Swallows and Amazons]
by Ransome, Arthur
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140304134
- ISBN 13
- 9780140304138
- Seller
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London (Birr), Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
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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- Bookseller
- CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74934h
- Title
- Secret Water [Swallows and Amazons]
- Author
- Ransome, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140304134
- ISBN 13
- 9780140304138
- Publisher
- Puffin Books
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1969
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Keywords
- Secret Water [Swallows and Amazons] arthur ransome
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...