Discovering Swallows & Ransomes

Discovering Swallows & Ransomes

Author: John Berry

Publisher: Sigma Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9781850588146

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This is a unique collection of rare experiences, enterprise and adventure that gives an insight into the unusual attributes of Arthur Ransome and the exceptional characters to be found in his books.


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Download or read book Discovering Swallows & Ransomes written by John Berry and published by Sigma Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique collection of rare experiences, enterprise and adventure that gives an insight into the unusual attributes of Arthur Ransome and the exceptional characters to be found in his books.


Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons Series #1)

Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons Series #1)

Author: Arthur Ransome

Publisher: eBookIt.com

Published: 2021-01-29

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1456636383

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The ultimate children's classic - long summer days filled with adventure. John, Susan, Titty and Roger sail their boat, Swallow, to a deserted island for a summer camping trip. Exploring and playing sailors is an adventure in itself but the island holds more excitement in store. Two fierce Amazon pirates, Nancy and Peggy, challenge them to war and a summer of battles and alliances ensues. 'My childhood simply would not have been the same without this book. It created a whole world to explore, one that lasted long in the imagination after the final page had been read' - Marcus Sedgwick


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Download or read book Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons Series #1) written by Arthur Ransome and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate children's classic - long summer days filled with adventure. John, Susan, Titty and Roger sail their boat, Swallow, to a deserted island for a summer camping trip. Exploring and playing sailors is an adventure in itself but the island holds more excitement in store. Two fierce Amazon pirates, Nancy and Peggy, challenge them to war and a summer of battles and alliances ensues. 'My childhood simply would not have been the same without this book. It created a whole world to explore, one that lasted long in the imagination after the final page had been read' - Marcus Sedgwick


The Picts and the Martyrs

The Picts and the Martyrs

Author: Arthur Ransome

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher

Published: 2008-02-02

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781567922288

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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.


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Download or read book The Picts and the Martyrs written by Arthur Ransome and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2008-02-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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: David R. Godine Publisher

Published: 2012-09

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1567924816

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The Walker family endures a shipwreck, discovers a secret cave and valley, builds a camp on the mainland, and goes hiking in the mountains.


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Download or read book Swallowdale written by Arthur Ransome and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Walker family endures a shipwreck, discovers a secret cave and valley, builds a camp on the mainland, and goes hiking in the mountains.


Arthur Ransome's Lake District

Arthur Ransome's Lake District

Author: Jon Sparks

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781841145990

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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.


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Download or read book Arthur Ransome's Lake District written by Jon Sparks and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Big Six (Swallows and Amazons #9)

The Big Six (Swallows and Amazons #9)

Author: Arthur Ransome

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 1941

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0359880797

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Download or read book The Big Six (Swallows and Amazons #9) written by Arthur Ransome and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 1941 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:


"Racundra's" First Cruise

Author: Arthur Ransome

Publisher:

Published: 1923

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13:

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Download or read book "Racundra's" First Cruise written by Arthur Ransome and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:


Pigeon Post

Pigeon Post

Author: Arthur Ransome

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 1567926398

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For anyone who loves sailing and adventure, Arthur Ransome's classic Swallows and Amazons series stands alone. Originally published in the UK over a half century ago, these books are still eagerly read by children, despite their length and their decidedly British protagonists. We attribute their success to two facts: first, Ransome is a great storyteller and, second, he clearly writes from first-hand experience. Independence and initiative are qualities any child can understand and every volume in this collection celebrates these virtues. 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 every child.


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Download or read book Pigeon Post written by Arthur Ransome and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1983 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone who loves sailing and adventure, Arthur Ransome's classic Swallows and Amazons series stands alone. Originally published in the UK over a half century ago, these books are still eagerly read by children, despite their length and their decidedly British protagonists. We attribute their success to two facts: first, Ransome is a great storyteller and, second, he clearly writes from first-hand experience. Independence and initiative are qualities any child can understand and every volume in this collection celebrates these virtues. 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 every child.


The Making of Swallows and Amazons (1974)

The Making of Swallows and Amazons (1974)

Author: Sophie Neville

Publisher: Lutterworth Press

Published: 2017-05-25

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0718845897

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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.


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Download or read book The Making of Swallows and Amazons (1974) written by Sophie Neville and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Swallows and Armenians

Swallows and Armenians

Author: Karen Babayan

Publisher: Wild Pansy Press

Published: 2019-03-09

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 190068778X

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The fictional Walker children, are much loved characters in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons, a quintessentially English family in an archetypal English children's classic. However, it was an Anglo-Armenian family from Aleppo who were the catalyst and inspiration. Swallows and Armenians is a book of short stories and essays which firmly re-establishes the connection, using newly-appraised correspondence and diaries. 'With her beautifully researched complement to Arthur Ransome’s classic and still best-selling series, Karen Babayan has opened a much-loved children’s adventure epic, set in the iconically British Lake District, to an enriching cross-cultural re-worlding. By revealing the Anglo-Armenian identity of the children who inspired the gripping tale of sailing, piracy and intrigue, she has created new stories resonant in our own times of conflict, displacement, and dangerous nationalisms. Unveiling Ransome’s anglicization of the Altounyan children, Karen Babayan restores them to their central place in British literature. She also links their crossing of Syrian Aleppo and Armenian cuisine with a once-Viking Cumbria to her own bi-cultural identity and traumatic familial experience of displacement and migration, loss and adaptation, all shadowed by the terror of the Armenian genocide (1915-17). By creative storytelling, Swallows and Armenians intervenes as much in diasporic Armenian as British cultural memory by vibrantly reanimating the voices of these extraordinary children who speak back across her pages from a past she has recreated to a present that needs them now.' Professor Griselda Pollock, Laureate of the Holberg Prize for Arts and Humanities 2020


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Download or read book Swallows and Armenians written by Karen Babayan and published by Wild Pansy Press. This book was released on 2019-03-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fictional Walker children, are much loved characters in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons, a quintessentially English family in an archetypal English children's classic. However, it was an Anglo-Armenian family from Aleppo who were the catalyst and inspiration. Swallows and Armenians is a book of short stories and essays which firmly re-establishes the connection, using newly-appraised correspondence and diaries. 'With her beautifully researched complement to Arthur Ransome’s classic and still best-selling series, Karen Babayan has opened a much-loved children’s adventure epic, set in the iconically British Lake District, to an enriching cross-cultural re-worlding. By revealing the Anglo-Armenian identity of the children who inspired the gripping tale of sailing, piracy and intrigue, she has created new stories resonant in our own times of conflict, displacement, and dangerous nationalisms. Unveiling Ransome’s anglicization of the Altounyan children, Karen Babayan restores them to their central place in British literature. She also links their crossing of Syrian Aleppo and Armenian cuisine with a once-Viking Cumbria to her own bi-cultural identity and traumatic familial experience of displacement and migration, loss and adaptation, all shadowed by the terror of the Armenian genocide (1915-17). By creative storytelling, Swallows and Armenians intervenes as much in diasporic Armenian as British cultural memory by vibrantly reanimating the voices of these extraordinary children who speak back across her pages from a past she has recreated to a present that needs them now.' Professor Griselda Pollock, Laureate of the Holberg Prize for Arts and Humanities 2020