Arthur Ransome
1) Swallowdale
Author
Series
Publisher
David R. Godine
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
The Walker family endures a shipwreck, discovers a secret cave and valley, builds a camp on the mainland, and goes hiking in the mountains.
2) Coot club
Author
Series
Publisher
D.R. Godine
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Dorothy and Dick have an adventure in the English countryside, involving frantic chases, calamitous boat collisions, and the attempts of their friends to protect nesting birds from rude holiday boaters.
4) Pigeon post
Author
Series
Publisher
D.R. Godine
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
A group of vacationers hunts for a lost gold mine and avoids a mysterious man they refer to as "squashy hat," with the help of their carrier pigeons, Homer, Sophocles, and Sappho.
Author
Series
Swallows and Amazons volume 1
Publisher
David R. Godine
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
The crew of the Swallow spend an adventurous summer on an English lake.
Originally published in the UK in 1930, this book introduces the Walker family, the camp on Wild Cat Island, the able-bodied catboat "Swallow," and the two intrepid Amazons, plucky Nancy and Peggy Blackett. Set in the English Lake District in the period between the two World Wars, when the world was a safer and simpler place. The children have fun sailing, camping, fishing, swimming...
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