Swallows and Amazons
Swallows and Amazons For the Walker children, sailing the boat Swallow to an island for a camping trip is a fantastic adventure. And so begins the battles, alliances and discoveries in a summer like…
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Swallows and Amazons
For the Walker children, sailing the boat Swallow to an island for a camping trip is a fantastic adventure. And so begins the battles, alliances and discoveries in a summer like no other.Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884 and went to school at Rugby. But soon they find themselves under attack from the fierce pirates of the Amazon, Nancy and Peggy.
And so began a writing career which has produced some of the real children's treasures of all time. He was in Russia in 1917, and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian.After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District with his Russian wife where, in 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. In 1936 he won the first ever Carnegie Medal for his book, Pigeon Post.Ransome died in 1967.
He and his wife Evgenia lie buried in the churchyard of St Paul's Church, Rusland, in the southern Lake District.
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