![]() ![]() (All 12 novels in the Swallows and Amazons series have been brought to life in the U.S. In minutes, the ship is ablaze (and doomed), and our seven luckless protagonists are adrift in two small boats. ![]() Of course, this book, like all Ransome titles, is about a lot more than clever detective work it has the smell of water and tarred rope, the sound of birds, and the plight of children left to their own devices and coping with everything from catching monster pike to trapping midnight eels. A master storyteller, sympathetically in touch with real children and their interests, has created characters who are ac. The original cast of the famed Swallows and Amazons series is sailing under the stars and the command of Captain Flint in the South China Sea when Gibbet, their pet monkey, grabs the captain's cigar and drops it in the fuel tank. In a clever bit of detective work, and with some help from a sophisticated photographic trap, the Big Six manage to exonerate themselves and catch the villains. The problem seems to be that boats are constantly being set adrift, and all the evidence points squarely at the three Death and Glories. In this (more or less) sequel to the adventures of Coot Club, Arthur Ransome returns once more to his beloved Norfolk Broads where trouble is again brewing for Joe, Bill, and Pete, the three boatbuilders' sons who (more or less) live full-time aboard the Death and Glory, and the three Coots, Tom, Dorothea and Dick. ![]()
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