We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea
A Childrens, Classics, Adventure book. Another exciting and wonderfully written tale in the Swallows and Amazons series....
'Like to spend a night in the Goblin?’The Swallows are staying on the Suffolk coast while they wait for their father to return home from China. But although the harbour is bursting with bobbing yachts, barges and steamers, this year there's no chance of any sailing for the landlocked Swallows. That is until they rescue young Jim Brading and his boat the Goblin from a sticky situation and to their delight are recruited as crew members. Mother agrees they can go, on one condition – they absolutely must not sail out past Beach End Buoy and into the open sea…
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 352 pages
- ISBN: 9780224021234 / 224021230
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If you only read one of the series, this is the one. Then you start at the beginning ;-) A great yarn about a quartet of brave and resource kids who ride out a massive North Sea storm in a borrowed boat after the ship's master disappears and the tide takes them -- you guessed it -- out to sea from their safe anchorage. Vivid writing,... This is definitely one of my favorite of the Swallows and Amazons series. Having presumably exhausted the possibilities of fresh-water sailing, Ransome sets the Walker children accidentally afloat, and a-sail, on the ocean. It's a believable accident, and they deal with it well. I didn't like that it was the girls who ended up seasick... Another exciting and wonderfully written tale in the Swallows and Amazons series. As in Ransome's other books, I particularly enjoyed the way he uses technical sailing jargon (and unfamiliar British terminology) without writing down to the reader - he rarely defines terms, but rather uses them in a natural context that eventually reveals...
