Arthur Ransome's Lakeland a quest for the real " Swallows and Amazons " country

Roger Wardale

Dalesman

Hardcover -160 pages copyright 2000 with many photos By Roger Wardale Biography of Arthur Ransome, and the world he wrote of in the Swallows & Amazons book series for children. Lake District, East Anglia and the Hebrides

Arthur Ransome and the world of the Swallows and Amazons

Biographies & Memoirs

Great Northern Books Ltd

Using diaries of Ransome and his wife, journals of his friends and Ransome's own notes, Roger Wardale has pieced together the story of how "Swallows and Amazons" and its Lake District successors came to be written.

In search of Swallows & Amazons: Arthur Ransome's Lakeland

Travel

Europe

Sigma Leisure

<p>Roger Wardale's 40-year search uncovers the secret locations featured in Arthur Ransome's original "Swallows &amp; Amazons" adventures. Containing fully revised text and rare photographs to satisfy even the most avid reader of "Swallows &amp; Amazons", this book aims to give two-fold pleasure - enjoy the original stories, and...discover the farms, rivers, islands, towns and hills that formed their backdrop. It is abundantly illustrated with maps, sketches and more than fifty photographs to help identify the secret locations featured in the ever-popular series of books. Numerous quotations from Arthur Ransome support both text and photographs.</p>

In Search of Swallows and Amazons

Arts & Literature

Sigma Press

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