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A review in The Atlanta Constitution, thought the book would be appreciated by fans of series. [1] Helen Alice Howard, of the Lexington Herald-Leader, agreed with this, and added that despite the conceit—of blowing all the way across the ocean—the convincing writing of the author makes the reader accept it as a possibility. [2]
The Swallows and Amazons are in Lowestoft, preparing for a cruise aboard a schooner, the Wild Cat, with Captain Flint, the Blacketts' uncle Jim Turner.Unfortunately the other adult (Sam Bideford) cannot come and so the cruise is threatened until Peter Duck, an elderly seaman, offers to come along to help.
Secret Water is the eighth book in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books. It was published on 28 November 1939. [1] This book is set in and around Hamford Water in Essex, close to the resort town of Walton-on-the-Naze. [2] It starts only a few days after We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea ends.
In many ways, Eugenie Montague's “Swallow the Ghost” feels like three separate novels. The story's center is Jane Murphy, who works at a New York social media startup on an internet novel that ...
Coot Club is the fifth book of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, published in 1934. The book sees Dick and Dorothea Callum visiting the Norfolk Broads during the Easter holidays, eager to learn to sail and thus impress the Swallows and Amazons when they return to the Lake District later that year.
Winter Holiday is the fourth novel of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books. It was published in 1933. It was published in 1933. In this story, the third set of major characters in the series, the Ds — Dick and Dorothea Callum—are introduced.
The Big Six is the ninth book of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, published in 1940. The book returns Dick and Dorothea Callum, known as the Ds, to the Norfolk Broads where they renew their friendship with the members of the Coot Club.
As this book was supposedly based on information supplied by the children themselves, Ransome drew the pictures as though done by the characters. These illustrations were so popular that Ransome illustrated the remainder of his books himself. In 1938, he drew his own pictures for Swallows and Amazons and Swallowdale to replace Webb's.