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| Book Number | TAR12116 |
|---|---|
| Weight (grams) | 540.0000 |
| Series | Swallows and Amazons Number Eleven |
| In Stock | In Stock |
| Title | The Picts and the Martyrs or Not Welcome at All |
| Authors | Author: Ransome, Arthur [Mitchell] Illustrator: Arthur Ransome |
| Edition Points | Reprint—Edition identified by: Publisher's stated imprint information. [References: Arthur Ransome: A Bibliography [Winchester Bibliographies of 20th Century Writers] by Wayne G. Hammond, reference A34.1 and A Ransome Book-Case by John Cowen, page 96] |
| Bibliographical Information | Jonathan Cape Limited, London, 2004, ISBN 0224606417 [9780224606417]. Hardcover, Octavo 206 mm (8 1/8 inches) by 147 mm (5 3/4 inches). 304 printed pages in publisher's original green cloth with gilt lettering and publisher's logo on the spine, in a dust jacket printed in a similar style to the first UK edition. Colour map endpapers. Contains black and white frontispiece, 19 black and white illustrations by Arthur Ransome and colour map endpapers by Arthur Ransome |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape Limited |
| Published Place | London |
| Published Date for Display | 2004 |
| Binding | Hardback |
| Size | Octavo 206 mm (8 1/8 inches) by 147 mm (5 3/4 inches) |
| ISBN10 | 0224606417 |
| ISBN13 | 9780224606417 |
| Download Link | Download Printable Details |
| Content | The terrible Great Aunt invites herself to stay with Nancy and Peggy, just as the D.s arrive for the Summer holiday. The D.s attempt to avoid discovery by the Great Aunt, while Peggy and Nancy pretend to be the perfect nieces. The last of the books based in the lakes. There are thirty chapters: 1—Visitors Expected, 2—The Visitors Arrive, 3—Out of the Blue, 4—The Dog's Home, 5—Transformation Scenes, 6—'She's Here!', 7—Secondhand News, 8—Dealing with the Doctor, 9—Harbour for Scarab, 10—Pigeons for Timothy, 11—A Better Pict Than Either of Us, 12—A Signal From the Lawn, 13—Tickling Trout, 14—'They Can't Be Going to Sail…', 15—Launching the Scarab, 16—On Their Own, 17—Waiting for the Message, 18—Visiting Seal, 19—'We've Never Been Burglars Before', 20—Police!, 21—As Others See Us, 22—Plans and Change of Plans, 23—The Great Aunt Goes to See for Herself, 24—Care-Free Holiday, 25—Totally Disappeared, 26—The Hunt is Up, 27—The One Thing That Mustn't Happen, 28—Three in a Boat, 29—Great Aunt Maria Faces Her Pursuers and 30—Reward of Virtue Illustrations include: The Picts at Home, Mot What I Call Homely, A Great Improvement in the House, It Hasn't Tumbled Down Yet, Moving House, Map, Wet Work in the Loagoon, Not Looking at All Like Going, Look Out Post on the Ridge, Feeling for a Trout, Scarab, How Not to Lower Sail, Wet and Piebald in the Doorway, Getting In, Work in the Houseboat, Their Own Mine, At the Beckfoot Gate, They Were Startled by a Splash, It Acts As an Extra Sail and The Great Aunt Steps Ashore. |
| About the Author(s) | Arthur [Mitchell] Ransome (1884 to 1967)—English author and journalist, born in Leeds and best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books |
| About the Series | Swallows and Amazons—A series of 12 (Swallows and Amazons, Swallowdale, Peter Duck, Winter Holiday, Coot Club, Pigeon Post, We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea, Secret Water, The Big Six, Missee Lee, The Picts And The Martyrs: or Not Welcome At Aland Great Northern?) children's books by English author Arthur Ransome, named after the title of the first book in the series. They involve the outdoor adventures of children, most notably John, Susan, Titty, and Roger Walker, Nancy and Peggy Blackett and Dick and Dorothea Callum. They portray an idyllic, yet also realistic, depiction of childhood adventure set in the 1930s. The series contains 12 books. The first book was originally published in 1930 and the last book was originally published in 1947 |
| About the Publisher | Jonathan Cape Limited—(Founded in 1919) British publisher founded in 1919 by Herbert Jonathan Cape (1879-1960), the son of a builder who started as an apprentice in the book trade. The company was initially named Jonathan Page and Company (Page was his mother's maiden name) and this changed to Jonathan Cape in 1921. Its most books and authors are probably: T. E. Lawrence, Arthur Ransome, the later Roald Dahl books, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, Fitzroy Maclean's Eastern Approaches, the James Bond series by Ian Fleming and more recently Anita Brookner, Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie. It is currently an imprint of Random House in 1987 |
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