![]() ![]() ![]() (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. Here he takes the reader not only on the usual sailing adventures and cliff-hanging escapades, but also into Chinese culture. Ransome is, as always, the consummate storyteller. ![]() ![]() 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. 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. They make their way to land, only to find themselves the captives of one of the last remaining pirates operating off the China Coast. In minutes, the ship is ablaze (and doomed), and our seven luckless protagonists are adrift in two small boats. 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. ![]()
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