Pigeon Post

Arthur Ransome

ISBN 10: 0099582546 / ISBN 13: 9780099582540

Editore: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, London, 2013

Barbecued billygoats! Can you imagine finding gold? Thats just what the Swallows and Amazons and Dick and Dorothea decide to hunt for in the hills high above the lake. But its 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 Ds Mining Company must stake their claim before their dreaded rival. Includes exclusive material: In The Backstory you can test your knowledge of the book and learn all about homing pigeons! Vintage Childrens Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alices Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Codice articolo GOR005138336

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"Caproni alla griglia. " Riesci a immaginare di trovare l'oro? È proprio quello che le Rondini e le Amazzoni e Dick e Dorothea decidono di cercare sulle colline in alto sopra il lago. Ma è un'estate calda e secca e l'acqua scarseggia. Peggio ancora per i campeggiatori in difficoltà, 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. Include materiale esclusivo: in "The Backstory" puoi mettere alla prova la tua conoscenza del libro e imparare tutto sui piccioni viaggiatori. Vintage Children's Classics è una lista di classici del ventunesimo secolo rivolta ai bambini dagli 8 ai 12 anni e agli adulti nella loro vita. Scopri i classici senza tempo, da Il libro della giungla e Le avventure di Alice nel paese delle meraviglie, ai classici moderni come Il bambino con il pigiama a righe e Lo strano caso del cane ucciso a mezzanotte.

Informazioni sull?autore: Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884. He had an adventurous life - as a baby in he was carried by his father to the top of the Old Man of Coniston, a peak that is 2,276ft 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 their return to England, he bought a cottage near Windermere in the Lake District and began writing children's stories. In a 1958 author's note, Ransome wrote: ''I have been often asked how I came to write Swallows and Amazons. The answer is that it had its beginning long, long ago when, as children, my brother, my sisters and I spent most of our holidays on a farm at the south end of Coniston. We played in or on the lake or on the hills above . . . Going away from it we were half drowned in tears. While away from it, as children and as grown-ups, we dreamt about it. No matter where I was, wandering about the world, I used at night to look for the North Star and, in my mind's eye, could see the beloved sky-line of great hills beneath it. Swallows grew out of those old memories. I could not help writing it. It almost wrote itself.'' 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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Titolo: Pigeon Post
Casa editrice: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, London
Data di pubblicazione: 2013
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good