Swallows and Amazons
  • Published: 1 July 1992
  • ISBN: 9780224606318
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $65.00

Swallows and Amazons

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1 Aug 2012
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4 Nov 2011
Paperback
1 Dec 1995
Hardback
1 Jul 1992
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The first in Arthur Ransome's charming, thrilling and inspirational series. The book that has set generations of children and their parents afloat, on the high seas of the Lake District.

A master storyteller, sympathetically in touch with real children and their interests, has created characters who are accepted as friends by children everywhere, not to mention plots which are eminently plausible and unexpected.' SUNDAY TIMES, in an article listing Swallows and Amazons among '99 Best Books for Children.
  • Published: 1 July 1992
  • ISBN: 9780224606318
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $65.00
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About the author

Arthur Ransome

Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884 and went to school at Rugby. 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. And so began a writing career which has produced some of the real children's treasures of all time. 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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We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea
Great Northern?
Swallowdale
Secret Water
Missee Lee
The Picts and the Martyrs
The Big Six
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