Arthur Ransome's Lake District

Arthur Ransome's Lake District
Author: Jon Sparks
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2007
Genre: Lake District (England)
ISBN: 9781841145990

Award winning writer and photographer Jon Sparks has produced an in-depth guide to the Lake District landscapes, which in many places has changed remarkably little since Arthur Ransome's time.

The Picts and the Martyrs

The Picts and the Martyrs
Author: Arthur Ransome
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2008-02-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781567922288

The two Blackett sisters are to stay at Beckfoot on the lakeshore with their cook, but when their great aunt hears of the abandonment, she's on the next train.

Swallowdale

Swallowdale
Author: Arthur Ransome
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 644
Release: 2012-08-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1448139848

'Ahoy! Ahoy! Swallows! Ahoy!' Have you ever sailed in a boat or built a camp? Have you caught trout and cooked it yourself? The four Swallows, John, Susan, Titty and Roger return to the lake full of such plans and they can't wait to meet up with Nancy and Peggy, the Amazon Pirates. When the Swallow is shipwrecked and the Amazon's fearsome Great-Aunt makes decides to make a visit their summer seems ruined. Then they discover a wonderful hidden valley and things take a turn for the better... BACKSTORY: Discover the real Swallowdale, swot up on seafaring and learn all about the adventurous author.

Swallows and Amazons

Swallows and Amazons
Author: Arthur Ransome
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2012-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 156792462X

When their boat is burned and they are cast adrift in the South China Sea, Titty, Roger, Peggy, John, Nancy, Susan, and Captain Flint make their way to land only to find themselves the captives of the redoubtable Missee Lee, one of the last pirates operating off the China coast.

Pigeon Post

Pigeon Post
Author: Arthur Ransome
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Total Pages: 411
Release: 1983
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 1567926398

Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series has stood the test of time. Ransome is not only a great storyteller, writing from first-hand experience, but each story celebrates eternally valuable qualities of practical knowledge, independence, and initiative. The twelve books are for children or grownups-anyone captivated by a world of sailing, adventure, and imagination. The crew's on holiday for their sixth adventure, and they turn their energies to mining for gold, aided by pigeon messengers Homer, Sophocles, and Sappho. The adventurers comb the nearby hills for a fabled lost claim, while being shadowed by a mysterious figure they dub "squashy hat." Undeterred by drought, sudden brushfires, and the continuing presence of Squashy Hat, the young prospectors persevere in their quest-with surprising results. Full of the dangers and dark adventures of old mines and forgotten claims, Pigeon Post has an irresistible appeal to the persistent explorer in all of us.

Winter Holiday

Winter Holiday
Author: Arthur Ransome
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2001
Genre: Amazons (Fictitious characters : Ransom)
ISBN: 0099427176

Follows the adventures of two groups of children who spend a winter holiday by a great lake next to the mountains.

The World of Arthur Ransome

The World of Arthur Ransome
Author: Christina Hardyment
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Authors, English
ISBN: 9780711232976

Arthur Ransome is most famous as a childrens author, but he was also a literary critic, a foreign correspondent, a fisherman and a sailor. Arthur Ransome at Home and Aboard offers a new aspect of this many-faceted man by showing him in his domestic context, telling the story of his childhood, his two wives and his daughter.

The Making of Swallows and Amazons (1974)

The Making of Swallows and Amazons (1974)
Author: Sophie Neville
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2017-05-25
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0718845900

In 1973 Sophie Neville was cast as Titty alongside Virginia McKenna, Ronald Fraser and Suzanna Hamilton in the film Swallows & Amazons. Made before the advent of digital technology, the child stars lived out Arthur Ransome's epic adventure in the great outdoors without ever seeing a script. Encouraged by her mother, Sophie Neville kept a diary about her time filming on location in the lakes and mountains of Cumbria. Bouncy and effervescent, extracts from her childhood diary are interspersed among her memories of the cast and crew as well as photographs, maps and newspaper articles, offering a child's eye view of the making of the film from development to premiere - and the aftermath.

The Big Six (Swallows and Amazons #9)

The Big Six (Swallows and Amazons #9)
Author: Arthur Ransome
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2019-08-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0359880797

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. This book is more of a detective story as the Ds and Coot Club try to unravel a mystery that threatens the Death and Glories' freedom to sail the river.The Ds return to Norfolk, hoping to enjoy a holiday with their friends of the Coot Club. Unfortunately, they find the Death and Glories (Pete, Bill and Joe) coming under a gathering cloud of suspicion of setting moored boats adrift.