In Search of "Swallows and Amazons": Arthur Ransomes's Lakeland (1996)

by Roger Wardale

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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.

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Another Country: A Guide to the Children's Books of the Lake District and Cumbria by James Mackenzie (PippaKay)
PippaKay: PippaKay recommends this book by James Mackenzie in the Girls Gone By series of publications. Not only does it deal well with the Ransome stories but it also introduces you to the many other famous children's authors who have written about the Lake District. It will allow you to go in your imagination to real places behind each story and, if you follow the carefully structured guidance, you can take you or your children to the real places around all the famous lakes,… (more)

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An attempt by leading Ransome scholar Roger Wardale to track down the original locations for Ransome's Lakeland stories, a task not always possible to achieve, given that Ransome's Lake is, essentially, fictional. Also a guide to many significant locations in Ransome's life. Let down a bit by not terribly well reproduced b&w illustrations. (

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1996

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Lake District, Cumbria, England, UK

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For Tony, in gratitude

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The small girl balanced precariously on top of a rock beside an island on Coniston Water, and called out, 'Look at me, Mummy. I'm on Titty's rock!'

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Although both his father and his grandfather came from the Lake District, Arthur Ransome was born and grew up in Leeds where his father was Professor of History at the Yorkshire College (now the University of Leeds).

Chapter One. Arthur Ransome and the Lake District.

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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.

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