We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea
by Ransome, Arthur; Introduction by Beryle B. Beatley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0839826982
- ISBN 13
- 9780839826989
- Seller
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Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston MA: Gregg Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. 1st Thus. Hardcover. 0839826982 . A charming reprint copy, published by permission of Jonathan Capoe, the original publisher. ; Gregg Press children's literature series; 335 pages; A charming reprint copy, published by permission of Jonathan Cape, the original publisher. There are no signs of any prior use. The jacket is faded but neither chipped nor worn. A mylar Brodart cover now protects it. Fast shipping, with tracking number provided. .
Synopsis
ARTHUR RANSOME was born in Leeds in 1884. He had an adventurous life -- as a baby he was carried by his father to the top of the Old Man of Coniston, a peak that is 2,276 ft high! He went to Russia in 1913 to study folklore and in 1914, at the start of World War I he became a foreign correspondent for the Daily News . In 1917 when the Russian Revolution began he became a journalist and was a special correspondent of the Guardian . He played chess with Lenin and married Trotsky's personal secretary, Evgenia Petrovna Shelepina. On his return to England, he bought a cottage near Windermere in the Lake District and began writing children's stories. He published the first of his children's classics, the twelve Swallows and Amazons books, in 1930. In 1936 he won the first ever Carnegie Medal for his book, Pigeon Post . He died in 1967.
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- Bookseller
- Autumn Leaves Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39198
- Title
- We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea
- Author
- Ransome, Arthur; Introduction by Beryle B. Beatley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0839826982
- ISBN 13
- 9780839826989
- Publisher
- Gregg Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston MA
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- 0839826982
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