Arthur Ransome

Arthur Ransome (1884 - [[1967) is best known for writing the "Swallows and Amazons" series of children's books, which tell of school-holiday adventures, mostly in the Lake District and Norfolk Broads areas of England, and mostly involving small sailing boats. They remain extremely popular more than a half-century after their publication, to the point that they a basis of a tourist industry around Lake Windermere[?].

Earlier in his life, Ransom was a reporter and writer who was interested in, and covered, the Russian Revolution.

Children's Book Bibliography

• Swallows and Amazons (1930)"
• Swallowdale (1931)"
• Peter Duck (1932)"
• Winter Holiday (1933)"
• Coot Club (1934)"
• Pigeon Post (1936)"
• We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea (1937)"
• Secret Water (1939)"
• The Big Six (1940)"
• Missee Lee (1941)"
• The Picts And The Martyrs (1943)"
• Great Northern? (1947)"