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This exciting story of the Norfolk Broads is definitely the best Mr Ransome has written (Daily Mail )There is plenty of excitement, a little danger, a quality of thinking, planning and fun which is delightful and stimulating (Times Literary Supplement )There is no better companion to a Norfolk Broads holiday than Arthur Ransome's Coot Club . . . A gripping, down-to-earth tale (Carousel 20090601)

It all started with a coot’s nest. Dorothy and Dick meet Tom Dodgeon, Port and Starboard, and three pirate salvagers – all members of the “Coot Club” Bird Protection Society. When one of the coot’s nests is disturbed by a shipful of “Hullabaloos” – rude holiday boaters – trouble begins. Frantic chases, calamitous boat collisions, and near drownings fill the pages of this exciting fifth addition to Ransome’s classic children’s series. “This exciting story of the Norfolk Broads is definitely the best Mr. Ransome has written. It is genuine adventure, and yet there is not an incident which could not easily occur sailing about the waters of East Anglia.” –Daily Mail “There is satisfactory realism about all that happens to the Coot Club, and the atmosphere and detail of the odd part of England where they navigate are conveyed with a charm and accuracy that only this author perhaps could bring to bear.” –Guardian

It all started with a coot’s nest. Dorothy and Dick meet Tom Dodgeon, Port and Starboard, and three pirate salvagers – all members of the “Coot Club” Bird Protection Society. When one of the coot’s nests is disturbed by a shipful of “Hullabaloos” – rude holiday boaters – trouble begins. Frantic chases, calamitous boat collisions, and near drownings fill the pages of this exciting fifth addition to Ransome’s classic children’s series. “This exciting story of the Norfolk Broads is definitely the best Mr. Ransome has written. It is genuine adventure, and yet there is not an incident which could not easily occur sailing about the waters of East Anglia.” –Daily Mail “There is satisfactory realism about all that happens to the Coot Club, and the atmosphere and detail of the odd part of England where they navigate are conveyed with a charm and accuracy that only this author perhaps could bring to bear.” –Guardian

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. 18th impression, Jonathan Cape 1958. 352pp. Frontispiece, title-page vignette, charming and profuse illustrations including 21 further full-page plates, in-text vignettes, coloured map endpapers. Textblock very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or ownership marks of any kind, firmly held in joints and hinges. In very good blind and bright gilt embossed green cloth gently faded to spine. We have many more Arthur Ransome books from the Swallows and Amazon series for sale bought from the same collection, please see our listings.