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Peter Willis combines an analysis of a classic of maritime literature – We didn’t Mean to go to Sea’ (Arthur Ransome) with the story of the Nancy Blackett, Ransome’s own boat which appears as the Goblin in his story.
He describes her life, near-death and restoration, and her renaissance as an ambassador for Ransome and his tales.
(There’s more than a touch of irony about the title of Arthur Ransome’s We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea. The book came about precisely because that’s just what he had intended to do,’ Generations of children and their parents have delighted in Arthur Ransome’s series of twelve ‘Swallows and Amazons’ books, but one of them stands out from the rest as being of a different order altogether…)
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