Great Northern?: A Scottish Adventure of Swallows & Amazons
Finally! Here is the twelfth, and final, book in Arthur Ransome's acclaimed Swallows and Amazons series. People familiar with his earlier work will recognize the pattern: children set out on an adventure (this one off the coast of Scotland) with a minimum of parental advice and interference....
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Finally! Here is the twelfth, and final, book in Arthur Ransome's acclaimed Swallows and Amazons series. People familiar with his earlier work will recognize the pattern: children set out on an adventure (this one off the coast of Scotland) with a minimum of parental advice and interference. Here, the story centers on a desperate race to thwart the efforts of pernicious egg collectors threatening the survival of a pair of rare birds not previously known to nest in British waters (actually, the bird is the handsome North American "Great Northern Diver," more commonly called a loon).
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781567922592 (1567922597)
Publish date: November 1st 2003
Publisher: David R Godine
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Adventure,
Classics,
Novels,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Juvenile,
Historical Fiction,
Scotland
Series: Swallows and Amazons (#12)
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