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Peter Duck

Peter Duck

by Arthur Ransome (Author)

  • New

    Hardcover 1983

    $18.94

  • Used

    Paperback 1968

    $3.41

  • New

    Paperback 2001

    $10.31
Synopsis

'Why do they call him Black Jake? Is it because of his hair?' Titty asked. 'Because of his heart' said Peter Duck. The Swallows and Amazons, as well as Captain Flint and the ancient able seaman Peter Duck, set sail on the Wild Cat bound for the Channel. But they are shadowed by the Viper, manned by none other than Black Jake - a beastly pirate with a dark plan. Can the children race ahead and uncover the buried treasure before the pirate? Can they survive storms, earthquakes, crabs and even a waterspout and make it home?

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 432
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 20 Oct 1983
ISBN 10: 0224021257
ISBN 13: 9780224021258
Children’s book age: 7-9 Years

Media Reviews
In many ways Peter Duck is the best of the series. * Guardian *
So well written that you don't realize that it is written at all. The adventures just seem to occur to oneself. * Hugh Walpole, Observer *
This is the real stuff of imagination which might so easily happen. . . all the details are true to life, the ship is a real ship, with all its sails and rigging made familiar, and the voyage which those happy children make to southern seas and coral islands is the beautiful possibility of daring and freedom become living and credible. * Listener *
Author Bio
Arthur Ransome was born in 1884. He was in Russia in 1917 and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian. After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District of England with his Russian wife where, in 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. Thus began a writing career that has produced some of the best children's literature of all time.