Book description
John, Susan, Titty and Roger, the crew of the Swallow, take on the job
of mapping the mass of small islands round Pin Mill while living on the
biggest one. But who are the mysterious savages who lurk in the islands
- and is the tribal totem they find in their campsite a threat of
attack. ? 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.
