We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea

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Arthur Ransome: We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea (2014, Penguin Random House)

512 pages

English language

Published 2014 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-1-4481-9106-2
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The Swallows, visiting on the east coast of England, stand watch on a small cruising sailboat for the owner and drag anchor and cross the Channel in a gale. Wonderful detail about sailing, and the fact that it takes place 85 years ago doesn't matter.

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Subjects

  • Children's fiction
  • Sailing, fiction
  • England, fiction