Book description
'I was wrong,' said Captain Flint. 'He's not mad but bad. It isn't only
eggs he wants. He wants to take the credit for it. You're quite right.
It's up to us, it's up to the ship, to see he doesn't.'Dick's
birdwatching discovery turns the cruise of the Sea Bear into a desperate
chase. Not only do the Swallows and Amazons have to prove the facts of
the case but they also have to dodge the savage natives and evade the
ruthless pursuit of a fanatic egg-collector, determined to kill a pair
of rare birds and steal the credit. Fortunately, Nancy has a few plans.
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.
