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    Missee Lee is the tenth book of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, set in 1930s China. The Swallows and Amazons are on a...
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    trip across the North Sea to the Netherlands. Two books, Peter Duck and Missee Lee, and possibly also Great Northern?, are metafictional: fictional stories...
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  • straightforward, the story, together with its equally unrealistic ostensible sequel Missee Lee, is much more fantastic than the rest of the series. A trip to China as...
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    Missee Lee by Arthur Ransome (one of the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books) Captain Flint (who had dropped out of Oxford) tells Missee Lee...
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    Wars. It also appears in Arthur Ransome's books Swallows and Amazons and Missee Lee and Wilbur Smith's works Monsoon and Blue Horizon. The "Yankee Whalerman"...
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  • wide-brimmed hats and tied red kerchiefs around their necks and heads." In Missee Lee, Arthur Ransome's young adult novel set in the South China Sea waters...
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  • Missee Lee. Gibber – Ship's monkey, promised to Roger by Captain Flint at the end of Swallows and Amazons. Only features in Peter Duck and Missee Lee...
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    after the ill-fated expedition. In Arthur Ransome's children's book Missee Lee, Miss Lee, the leader of the Chinese pirates, had been educated at Cambridge...
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  • Diaries) Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock Arthur Ransome, Peter Duck, Missee Lee Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler), A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 book...
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    adventures of piracy in distant lands: two of the twelve books, Peter Duck and Missee Lee (and some would include Great Northern? as a third), are adventures supposedly...
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