We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea
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| Author(s): | Arthur Ransome |
| Illustrator(s): | Arthur Ransome |
| Publisher(s): | Jonathan Cape Ltd |
| Year Published: | 1937 |
| Type: | Hardcover |
| Genre: | Boys Growing Up British Fiction - Novel Girls Growing Up Holidays Sea Stories |
| Age Range: | Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books |
| Pages: | 351 |
| This is an | All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB) |
| OCLC: | 504473804 |
Description
The Swallows are invited to sail in Goblin with Jim Brady. When a fog comes up and the skipper doesn’t return and the rising tide starts the anchor to dragging, suddenly they find themselves outside Harwich Harbor, passing the Beach End buoy and well out in the North Sea.
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We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea (1938)
The Swallows are invited to sail in Goblin with Jim Brady. When a fog comes up and the skipper doesn’t return and the rising tide starts the anchor to dragging, suddenly they find themselves outside Harwich Harbor, passing the Beach End buoy and well out in the North Sea.
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