6/27/2023 0 Comments Arthur ransome![]() ![]() On the next stage of their voyage, they encounter a dead calm. They are warned to stay away from the Chinese coast because of pirates. ![]() The book opens with the Swallows, Amazons and Captain Flint in an unnamed port in the South China Sea, apparently the Hundredth Port of a round-the-world voyage aboard the Wild Cat, the small green schooner featured in Peter Duck. Ransome said that he based many of Missee Lee's characteristics on her, though there were others who contributed to the character. He also met, amongst others Soong Ching-ling, the wife of Sun Yat-sen. Ransome visited China in 19, where he learned about Chinese life and culture. The book, published in 1941, is considered one of the metafictional books in the series, along with Peter Duck and perhaps Great Northern? Sources Both dinghies eventually end up in the lair of the Three Island pirates-Chang, Woo and Lee-where they are held prisoner by the unusual Missee Lee, the leader of the Three Island pirates. After the Wild Cat sinks, they escape in the boats Swallow and Amazon, but are separated in a storm. The Swallows and Amazons are on a round-the-world trip with Captain Flint aboard the schooner Wild Cat. Missee Lee is the tenth book of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, set in 1930s China. ![]()
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