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Racundra's First Cruise by Arthur Ransome and Brian Hammett with Dust Jacket

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A Reprint of 'Racundra's First Cruise' by Arthur Ransome et al. in New condition in a New condition dust jacket published by Fernhurst Books in 2003

Racundra's First Cruise by Arthur Ransome and Brian Hammett, Reprint with Dust Jacket

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Condition Summary: (New/New) A fine, tightly bound book with clean boards and crisp pages, in a fine dust jacket

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Book Number B0009548
Title Racundra's First Cruise
Author(s) Author: Ransome, Arthur [Mitchell] Compiler: Hammett, Brian

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 (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 All and Great Northern?). He was also the author of forty or so other titles including other children's books, fishing books, sailing books and books on politics

Edition and Format ReprintEdition identified by: Publisher's imprint information states 'This Edition published in 2003 by Fernhurst Books'

Hardcover, Octavo 242 mm (9 1/2 inches) by 160 mm (6 1/4 inches). 256 printed pages in publisher's original red cloth with gilt 'Racundra's First Cruise', 'Arthur Ransome' and Fernhurst Books logo on the spine, in dust jacket. Contains black and white photographs and illustrations. ISBN 1898660964 [9781898660965]
Publisher(s) Fernhurst Books, Arundel, 2003
Series No
Content Content

This describes how Ransome built Racundra in Latvia and sailed her to Finland and back. A reprint of the 1923 edition, containing many original Ransome photos and drawings plus 60 additional pages of useful background information, including extracts of letters.

Chapters include : 'Slug', 'Kittiwake', 'Racundra', 'The Writing of Racundra's First Cruise', 'On the Pirate Ship', 'A Description of Racundra' and 'Racundra After Ransome'.

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