Abridged versions of two of Arthur Ransome's classic adventure stories, "Coot Club" and "The Big Six", are combined to make one complete story. A chance encounter on a train, on their way to a sailing holiday on the Norfolk Broads, introduces Dick and Dorothea to the members of the Coot Club.

 

This book is part of a book series called Red Fox Older Fiction .

There are 144 pages in this book. This book was published 1993 by Random House Children's Publishers UK .

Arthur Ransome was born in 1884. He was in Russia in 1917 and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian. After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District of England with his Russian wife where, in 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. Thus began a writing career that has produced some of the best children s literature of all time. "