Ebook {Epub PDF} The Big Six by Arthur Ransome

Arthur Ransome: First edition (ie first impression), hardback. 8vo (21cm by 14cm), pp. Frontispiece and text illustrations. Original green cloth, gilt titling to the spine. Boards a little rubbed and marked, binding lightly shaken, light foxing of the endpapers. Like many of Arthur Ransome's books The Big Six shows how children in the 30's and 40's were encouraged to 'do things' through reading about possibilities exemplified by others. Whilst not quite as exciting as his other adventures about the Swallows and Amazons (and not including any of those two sets of characters, contrary to the the title /5(89). Description. In original dust sheet. The Swallows and Amazons series of twelve children’s adventure novels by English author Arthur Ransome. The series, set in the interwar period, involve group adventures by children, mainly in the school holidays and mainly in England.

THE BIG SIX and its companion story, COOT CLUB, are based on the celebrated Swallows Amazons series of childrens' books written by Arthur Ransome. For anyone who loves sailing and adventure, the Arthur Ransome classics. The fourth book in Arthur Ransome's classic series for children, Winter Holiday takes intrepid explorers John, Susan, Titty, and Roger Walker, and fearsome Amazon pirates Nancy and Peggy Blackett to the North Pole. Joined by budding novelist Dorethes Callum and her scientist brother Dick, the children plan an "Arctic" expedition. The Big Six is the ninth book of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, published in The book returns Dick and Dorothea Callum, known as the Ds, to the Norfolk Broads where they renew their friendship with the members of the Coot www.doorway.ru book is more of a detective story as the Ds and Coot Club try to unravel a mystery that threatens the Death and Glories.

Arthur Michell Ransome CBE (18 January – 3 June ) was an English author and journalist. He is best known for writing and illustrating the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books about the school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. The books remain popular and Swallows and Amazons is the basis for a tourist industry around Windermere and Coniston Water, the two lakes Ransome adapted as his fictional North Country lake. The Big Six is the ninth book of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, published in The book returns Dick and Dorothea Callum, known as the Ds, to the Norfolk Broads where they renew their friendship with the members of the Coot Club. Description. In original dust sheet. The Swallows and Amazons series of twelve children’s adventure novels by English author Arthur Ransome. The series, set in the interwar period, involve group adventures by children, mainly in the school holidays and mainly in England.