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Peter Duck Author: Arthur Ransome

ISBN: 9780099573647 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 608 Published: 6 September 2012 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 18.9 x 13.0 x 3.8 Description: '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?

Backstory: find out if you would be a good sailor aboard the Wild Cat and learn all about the real location that inspired the author.

About the Author

Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884. He had an adventurous life - as a baby in he was carried by his father to the top of the Old Man of Coniston, a peak that is 2,276ft high! He went to Russia in 1913 to study folklore and in 1914, at the start of World War I he became a foreign correspondent for the Daily News. In 1917 when the Russian Revolutio...

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