Titre : | We didn't mean to go to sea |
Auteurs : | Arthur Ransome ; Ralph Mowat ; Henry Brighthouse, Illustrateur |
Type de document : | Books |
Mention d'édition : | New ed |
Editeur : | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
Article en page(s) : | 88 p. |
Collection : | Oxford bookworms library. Thriller & adventure, num. 4 |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-19-479193-9 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Tags : | English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers |
Résumé : |
The Swallows have arrived in Pin Mill with their mother and younger sister Brigit, to await their father's imminent return from duty in Hong Kong. They immediately earn the friendship and gratitude of Jim Brading, owner of the Goblin, by helping to secure his yacht from a potential accident. Jim has a couple of days free himself, and he offers to take the Swallows on a cruise around the River Orwell and and Harwich Harbour. Having received glowing references about Jim, the Swallows mother agrees - on the promise their solomn promise that they won't go out to sea. Their cruise goes like clockwork until the Goblin runs out of petrol near the mouth of the harbour. Jim anchors and rows ashore for fuel, leaving the Swallows marooned onboard. He doesn't return and, when fog closes in, Goblin drags her anchor and drifts out to sea where buoys, shoals and seasickness await. John is forced to summon all of his knowledge, as well as discover new strength of character, as he takes the Goblin further and further out to sea. It is a voyage where the Swallows have to face rain, wind, darkeness and exhaustion, together with the threat of collision, the challenge of rescuing a shipwrecked sailor and the need to take on a foreign pilot on an unknown shore - all the time fearing that their father might already be arriving in Harwich, where their mother would be waiting with no idea where they were... |