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Coot Club

Arthur Ransome author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Random House Children's UK

Published:6th Sep '01

Should be back in stock very soon

Coot Club cover

A timeless classic, beautifully rejacketed. One of twelve Arthur Ransome titles reissued this month.

Tom Dudgeon has cast off a motor cruiser from its moorings to protect a coot's nest, but now the cruiser is searching high and low for him - even offering a reward. You couldn't get a better sailor than Tom but can he really stay one jump ahead of his pursuers long enough to complete the voyage?Tom Dudgeon has cast off a motor cruiser from its moorings to protect a coot's nest, but now the cruiser is searching high and low for him - even offering a reward. Tom accepts an invitation for a week's cruise to teach his new friends, Dick and Dorothea how to sail. You couldn't get a better sailor than Tom but can he really stay one jump ahead of his pursuers long enough to complete the voyage?

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 *

ISBN: 9780099427186

Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 25mm

Weight: 263g

368 pages