Title: We didn't mean to go to sea
First published: 1937
Description: The Swallows, visiting on the east coast of England, stand watch on a small cruising sailboat for the owner and drag anchor and cross the Channel in a gale. Wonderful detail about sailing, and the fact that it takes place 85 years ago doesn't matter.
Subjects: Sea stories, Sailing, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Navigation, Yachts, Children's fiction, Sailing, fiction, England, fiction, Swallows (Fictitious characters), Amazons (Fictitious characters : Ransome), Adventure stories, Swallows, fiction, Boats and boating, fiction, Europe, fiction, Boats and boating
Places: Ipswitch, English Channel, Holland, England
Time periods: 1936