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Pigeon post by Arthur Michell Ransome · Booklabria

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Adventure storiesChildren's fiction

Pigeon post

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Part ofSwallows and Amazons7 books in the catalogue

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First published: 1936
Editions: 18 in 3 languages
Series: Swallows and Amazons

Synopsis

Pigeon Post is the 6th in the Swallows and Amazons series, and was the first winner of the Carnegie Medal, for the best children's book written by a British subject. The only book in the series that does not feature sailing, it's about mining on the Fells of the Lake district. Excellent descriptions of the use of homing pigeons to carry messages.

Subjects: Adventure stories
Children's fiction
Therapeutic use
Psychoanalysis
Psychopathology
Gold mines and mining
Set in: Lake District
Time: 1935
Characters: Swallows

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