Publisher's Synopsis
A master storyteller, sympathetically in touch with real children and their interests, has created characters who are accepted as friends by children everywhere, not to mention plots which are eminently plausible and unexpected.' SUNDAY TIMES, in an article listing Swallows and Amazons among '99 Best Books for Children.
This is the first book in Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons series of children’s books, it was originally published in 1930.
 
Jonathan Cape; 2006. With unclipped dust cover. Dust cover in very good condition but has a spill mark to the lower back which spills onto lower page edges. Book in beautiful A1 condition with the exception of the spill marks to page edges. Pre-owned. ISBN: 022460631X.