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We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea

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Author(s):Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):Arthur Ransome
Unknown
Publisher(s): Macmillan
Year Published: 1938
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Boys Growing Up
British
Fiction - Novel
Girls Growing Up
Sea Stories
Age Range: Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books
Pages: 335
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 2784184

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 (1937)

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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