Contents

Cover

About the Book

About the Author

Also by Arthur Ransome

List of Illustrations

Maps

Dedication

Title Page

1. Beginning Already

2. The Plan

3. Consulting Slater Bob

4. Mrs Blackett Makes Conditions

5. Pioneers and Stay-At-Homes

6. News From the Wilderness

7. Trek To Tyson’s

8. High Topps

9. Two Kinds Of Camping Places

10. Prospecting

11. Fending off the Enemy

12. Pot of Paint

13. Can’t Anybody Dowse?

14. Desperation

15. Titty Makes Up Her Mind To It

16. Sinking the Well

17. Shifting Camp

18. The White Spots

19. Roger Alone

20. What’s Become of Him?

21. Staking Their Claim

22. Crushing and Panning

23. Jack-In-The-Box

24. Buried Alive

25. Hurrying Moles

26. ‘We’ve Got To Do It All Ourselves’

27. A Run On Blowpipes

28. Charcoal-Burners

29. Blast Furnace

30. Disaster

31. Smoke Over High Topps

32. In The Gulch

33. At Beckfoot

34. The Natives

35. The End

The Backstory

Note

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