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Great Northern?, A Scottish Adventure of Swallows and Amazons
by Arthur Ransome
- TRAVEL NARRATIVE
- 2003
- PAPER
- 128 PAGES
- MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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The last in a series of 12 sailing adventures for youngsters, originally published in the 1947 and wonderfully literate. In this tale the youngsters Dick and Dorethea Callum get mixed up with a villain (who is out to get the birds of the title), meet a Scottish laird and have a blast aboard the cutter Sea Bear. Based on his own travels, Ransome's tales mix adventure, seamanship and lots of local lore. Ransome (1884-1967), who also wrote travel accounts and transcribed Russian fairy tales, was a foreign correspondent for the Manchester Guardian.
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