We didn't mean to go to sea.

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Arthur Ransome: We didn't mean to go to sea. (Undetermined language, 1937, Penguin)

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Published Nov. 8, 1937 by Penguin.

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The Swallows, visiting on the east coast of England, stand watch on a small cruising sailboat for the owner and drag anchor and cross the Channel in a gale. Wonderful detail about sailing, and the fact that it takes place 85 years ago doesn't matter.

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