MISSEE LEE: THE SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS IN THE CHINA SEAS

Book ID/图书代码： 11320010B42996

English Summary/英文概要： The original cast of the famed Swallows and Amazons series is sailing under the stars and the command of Captain Flint in the South China Sea when Gibbet, their pet monkey, grabs the captain’s cigar and drops it in the fuel tank. In minutes, the ship is ablaze (and doomed), and our seven luckless protagonists are adrift in two small boats. They make their way to land, only to find themselves the captives of one of the last remaining pirates operating off the China Coast. But Missee Lee, as it turns out, is no ordinary pirate; her father had sent her off to Cambridge University to prepare her for a life as a teacher. But when her father takes ill and dies, she finds herself struggling to hold together the Three Island Confederation (Tiger, Turtle, and Dragon) he had created, and to be recognized as his legitimate heir and ruler of the Island Kingdom.

Ransome is, as always, the consummate storyteller. Here he takes the reader not only on the usual sailing adventures and cliff-hanging escapades, but also into Chinese culture. (It’s no accident that, like so many of Ransome’s protagonists, Missee Lee is a woman, or that her Latin is almost as refined as her sailing skills.) It is also no wonder that The Observer called this, the tenth book in the series, "his best yet . . . a book to buy, to read, and to read again, not once but many times." The Guardian put it "in a class by itself." For Ransome, unlike so many writers of his and our generation, was particular in writing about things he knew and had studied first-hand, whether it was a foreign culture, a classical language, a cryptographic code, or the finer points of seamanship.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 当小艇被烧毁，泰迪、罗杰、佩吉、南希、苏珊以及弗林特船长都毫无依靠的漂泊在中国南海。当他们最终设法着陆时，却成了俘虏，受控于操控中国海域的最后一个海盗，Missee Lee。（Claire）

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About the Author/作者介绍： 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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
亚瑟•蓝塞姆出生于1884年。1917年在俄国亲眼目目了十月革命，并就此专题在《曼彻斯特卫报》发表了报道。之后逃亡到斯堪的纳维亚，与他的俄罗斯妻子一起安居在英国湖区，也就是在此于1929年诞生了Swallows and Amazons系列。之后亚瑟就开始了他全新的写作生涯，创作出了很多优秀的儿童文学作品。

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