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Swallowdale

by Arthur Ransome

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... was throughly enjoyable and just as good as I remembered. Now I want to get my hands on some of his others, particualrly Swallowdale, Pigeon post and Picts and Martyrs.

I finished The Umpire Strikes Back, and started Blanche Cleans Up and Swallowdale (bedtime reading material).

... collecting them for a friend. And I do love them. The first one of course "If not duffers, won't drown". And I love that Swallowdale takes a holiday that could have been spoilt and makes new adventures of it. Who has read The Far-distant Oxus by Katharine Hull and Pamela Whitlock?

Hard to pick between them, but Pigeon Post, Swallowdale, The Picts and the Martyrs and Secret Water are my favourites of the series, I think. Something about the methodicalness of three of them (charting, discovering) appeals. Peter Duck and Missee Lee never worked for me at all. Way ...

... I just reread Swallows and Amazons and I agree it was just as good as I remembered. I've got to try and get my hands on Swallowdale and Pigeon Post now as they were two of my favourites from childhood. I never really got into the Coot Club ones.

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