Books with title Swallow Tale

The Swallows and Amazons return to their lakeside home (in England’s Lake District in the 1930s) bursting with grand schemes for the summer―camping, hiking, fishing and exploring. But a shipwreck and an impending visit from a Great-Aunt threaten to foil all their plans. Never fear: the discovery of a hidden valley and a secret cave lend new excitement to their days! The sequel to Swallows and Amazons, also available from Overlook, Swallowdale is presented in a deluxe illustrated hardcover edition. Charming and imaginative, yet firmly rooted in the reality of nature, Swallowdale will “capture the imagination of the Harry Potter generation” (Guardian) and will be treasured by generations to come.

Arthur Ransome's classic series!”The little brown-sailed Swallow with her crew of five, including the parrot, had left Holly Howe Bay, and was now beating across the open lake that stretched away to the south between wooded hills, with moorland showing above the trees and, in the distance, mountains showing above the moorland.”—Arthur RansomeSwallowdale is English author Arthur Ransome's second book in his classic children's series about a group of children who go on outdoor adventures during school holidays.

The greatest of journeys have the smallest of beginnings. Once underway they are full of distractions for both the wary and the wide-eyed. It doesn't help that the world below can bend even the straightest line home out of shape until what's left is only survival in a race against time. On her first voyage home to England from her wintering grounds in the Cape of Good Hope, a young swallow named Belle must curb her curiosity to learn the instinct and skill required to survive a perilous race to overcome time and tide. Following the skighway along long-established ribbons of air, things go off-piste when the journey home begins to take her on a course of its choosing. For every encounter that awakens her fledgling senses, Belle’s chances of making it back to Britain to carry out nature's work recede fast. From far and wide we all come home in the end. It's just that some of us take that bit longer.

The beautiful second volume in the cherished adventure series that the Guardian called “the 1930s equivalent of JK Rowling.”The Swallows and Amazons return to their lakeside home (in England’s Lake District in the 1930s) bursting with grand schemes for the summer—camping, hiking, fishing and exploring. But a shipwreck and an impending visit from a Great-Aunt threaten to foil all their plans. Never fear: the discovery of a hidden valley and a secret cave lend new excitement to their days!The sequel to Swallows and Amazons, Swallowdale is charming and imaginative, yet firmly rooted in the reality of nature. Swallowdale will “capture the imagination of the Harry Potter generation” (Guardian) and will be treasured by generations to come.

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. Swallow: A Tale of the Great Trek is a 1899 novel by H. Rider Haggard set in South Africa during the Boer Trek of 1836.

The beautiful second volume in the cherished adventure series that the Guardian called “the 1930s equivalent of JK Rowling.”The Swallows and Amazons return to their lakeside home (in England’s Lake District in the 1930s) bursting with grand schemes for the summer—camping, hiking, fishing and exploring. But a shipwreck and an impending visit from a Great-Aunt threaten to foil all their plans. Never fear: the discovery of a hidden valley and a secret cave lend new excitement to their days!The sequel to Swallows and Amazons, Swallowdale is charming and imaginative, yet firmly rooted in the reality of nature. Swallowdale will “capture the imagination of the Harry Potter generation” (Guardian) and will be treasured by generations to come.

A story for readers aged eight and above.See the world through the eyes of Sirrus, a young swallow, born in the safe, familiar surroundings of the Valley. Learn with him the lessons of life, along with his brothers and sisters, taught diligently by his parents. And when the summer grows old and the first chill winds of winter blow, the time will have come for the most exhilarating adventure of them all – the Migration. Now take to the wing alongside Sirrus, as he joins the mighty host of swallows on their epic journey to their wintering grounds in Southern Africa. Deserts and seas must be crossed, joys and heartaches await, before a safe arrival is assured. But even then the greatest test is still ahead, when, with Sirrus, you must learn that while to be a swallow is the supreme blessing this world can bestow, it is also the supreme challenge.

"The world that the children enter as soon as they get off the train in the Lake District is as separate from their everyday world as Hogwarts or Narnia... For most readers, the idea of cooking trout you have caught yourself is as strange and poetic as the idea of casting a spell that turns a teacup into a turtle." --Guardian 'Ahoy! Ahoy! Swallows! Ahoy!'Have you ever sailed in a boat or built a camp? Have you caught trout and cooked it yourself? The four Swallows, John, Susan, Titty and Roger return to the lake full of such plans and they can't wait to meet up with Nancy and Peggy, the Amazon Pirates. When the Swallow is shipwrecked and the Amazon's fearsome Great-Aunt makes decides to make a visit their summer seems ruined. Then they discover a wonderful hidden valley and things take a turn for the better.