Book description
John, Susan, Titty and Roger return to the lake for another summer
camping on their island with their old allies, Nancy and Peggy,
otherwise known as the Amazon pirates. But immediately disaster strikes
when the Swallows find themselves marooned ashore by the shipwreck of
their boat. But if they can't have the island, there's always
Swallowdale, the secret valley, hidden from the world and containing an
extra secret concealed within it. 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.
