Pigeon Post

Ransome, Arthur (Michel)

ISBN 10: 0224021249 / ISBN 13: 9780224021241

Editore: Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, 1983

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First published in 1936, this is a first revised edition of 1983. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some scratches to spine, spine slightly faded, corners very slightly rubbed and bruised, price clipped, gift inscription to verso ffep, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 382pp, illustrated, map endpapers. Can you imagine finding gold? That?s just what the Swallows and Amazons and Dick and Dorothea decide to hunt for in the hills high above the lake. But it?s a hot and dry summer and water is in scarce supply. Worse still for the troubled campers, they have competition, Squashy Hat. Anybody can see he is a prospector. And talk about squashy hats! The children have never seen squashier. Just who is he and what sort of traps is he laying? Using pigeons to carry messages, braving dangerous mines and fires, the Swallows, Amazons and D's Mining Company must stake their claim before their dreaded rival. Arthur Ransome (1884-1967), spent time in Russia during World War I as a journalist for a radical British newspaper, the Daily News, and also wrote about the literary life of London and about Russia before during and after the revolutions of 1917. His connection with the leaders of the Revolution led to him providing information to the Secret Intelligence Service, while he was also suspected of being a Soviet spy by MI5. He settled with his Russian wife near Coniston in the Lake District, where he wrote his most famous 'Swallows and Amazons' books. Quite a scarce book, even in this later impression.

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• Titolo: Pigeon Post
• Editore: Jonathan Cape Ltd, London
• Data di pubblicazione: 1983
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0224021249
• ISBN 13: 9780224021241
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Disegnatore: Jacket and illustrations by the author
• Edizione: Revised Edition
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Very Good

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Riassunto

Caproni alla griglia. Riesci a immaginare di trovare l'oro. È proprio quello che le Rondini, le Amazzoni, Dick e Dorothea decidono di cercare sulle colline alte sopra il lago. Ma .È un'estate calda e secca e l'acqua scarseggia. E quel che .È peggio per i campeggiatori in difficoltà .È che hanno un concorrente: Squashy Hat. Chiunque può vedere che .È un cercatore d'oro. E che cappelli schiacciati. I bambini non hanno mai visto uno schiacciato più schiacciato. Chi .È e che tipo di trappole sta piazzando. Usando i piccioni per portare messaggi, sfidando pericolose miniere e incendi, le Rondini, le Amazzoni e la D's Mining Company devono rivendicare il loro diritto prima del loro temuto rivale.

Informazioni sull?autore

Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884 and went to school at Rugby. He was in Russia in 1917, and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian.

After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District with his Russian wife where, in 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. And so began a writing career which has produced some of the real children's treasures of all time. In 1936 he won the first ever Carnegie Medal for his book, Pigeon Post.

Ransome died in 1967. He and his wife Evgenia lie buried in the churchyard of St Paul's Church, Rusland, in the southern Lake District.