Missee Lee

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MISSEE LEE
"Missee Lee, by Arthur Ransome, seems to be his best yet. Not only are there pirates in it, but a super-female pirate, Missee Lee herself, whose very surprising behaviour creates a situation far too good to be given away A book to buy, to read, and to read again, not once but many times.' observer
'Mr Ransome's zest and power of invention seem inexhaustible. After each book one feels he surely cannot keep it up-at least not with the Swallows and Amazons, Death and Glories, and the rest of his famous cast. But here they I are - the Swallows and Amazons and j Captain Flint - sailing round the world on the schooner Wild Cat and being j captured on the China seas by a female I Chinese pirate with a Cambridge !j education.' Yorkshire post
'One of his very best in a class by i itself.' GUARDIAN
ARTHUR RANSOME
Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884 and died in June 1967 at the age of eighty-three. He went to school at Rugby and worked for a pubhsher in London before... Tovább

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MISSEE LEE
"Missee Lee, by Arthur Ransome, seems to be his best yet. Not only are there pirates in it, but a super-female pirate, Missee Lee herself, whose very surprising behaviour creates a situation far too good to be given away A book to buy, to read, and to read again, not once but many times.' observer
'Mr Ransome's zest and power of invention seem inexhaustible. After each book one feels he surely cannot keep it up-at least not with the Swallows and Amazons, Death and Glories, and the rest of his famous cast. But here they I are - the Swallows and Amazons and j Captain Flint - sailing round the world on the schooner Wild Cat and being j captured on the China seas by a female I Chinese pirate with a Cambridge !j education.' Yorkshire post
'One of his very best in a class by i itself.' GUARDIAN
ARTHUR RANSOME
Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884 and died in June 1967 at the age of eighty-three. He went to school at Rugby and worked for a pubhsher in London before taking up writing. In 1913, he went to Russia and learned the language in order to study folklore. During the First World War, he became War Correspondent for the Daily News and later Special Correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, travel-hng all over Russia, China and Egypt. After the war, he returned to England with his Russian wife and settled near Coniston Water in the Lake District, where he could practise his favourite pastimes of fishing and sailing, and where he wrote his Swallows and Amazons books. Arthur Ransome was awarded the C.B.E. in 1953. His autobiography, written in the last years of his life, and edited by Rupert Hart-Davis, takes his story up to the publication of the first three Swallows and Amazons stories in the early 1930s, but was not published until 1976.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ARTHUR RANSOME
'The most enchanting book of the year, or indeed of any year a fitting conclusion to his long run of masterpieces. ' A.J.P. Taylor, Observer
'Arthur Ransome tells this enthralling, fantastic story in a book which takes immediate rank among the very best of modern autobiographies. The writing, though apparently effortless, is in fact immensely skilled; the portrait which emerges is that of a very likeable and courageous man.' Georgina Battis-combe. The Times Vissza