Swallowdale (Red Fox Older Fiction) [Paperback]

"There is plenty of excitement, a little danger, a quality of thinking, planning and fun which is delightful and stimulating." -"TLS"
"He makes a tale of adventure a handbook to adventure." -"Observer"

"There is plenty of excitement, a little danger, a quality of thinking, planning and fun which is delightful and stimulating." -"TLS"

"He makes a tale of adventure a handbook to adventure." -"Observer" --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

A timeless classic, beautifully rejacketed. One of twelve Arthur Ransome titles reissued this month. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

One of Arthur Ransome's classic adventure stories. Double disaster strikes on the Swallows' second holiday. Nancy and Peggy are kept at home by an awful Great Aunt and, even worse, John crashes the "Swallow" on a rock. Then they all set up camp in the fells above the lake in a secret valley.

John, Susan, Titty and Roger return to the lake for another summer of camping on their island with their old allies, the Amazon pirates. And then disaster strikes when they find themselves marooned ashore by the shipwreck of their boat. But if they can't reach the island, there's always the hidden valley of Swallowdale to discover...

Swallows and Amazons

Swallowdale

Peter Duck

Winter Holiday

Coot Club

Pigeon Post

We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea

Secret Water

The Big Six

Missee Lee

The Picts and the Martyrs

Great Northern?

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in l884 and went to school at Rugby. He was in Russia in l917, and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian. After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District with his Russian wife where, in l929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. And so began a writing career which has produced some of the real children's treasures of all time. In 1936 he won the first ever Carnegie Medal for his book, Pigeon Post. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.