Oh, how sad it is to say farewell to the fictional characters whose lives and adventures wrap up in Scotland. Loon = Great Northern Diver and that's the centerpiece of the FINAL and TWELFTH volume of the wonderful Swallows and Amazons outdoor juvenile adventure series. But anyhow we've been beautifully stalked." Hopefully, Swallows and Amazons will always have a place in my Annual-Read-Shelf. My personal favorites were Nancy, Titty and Dot, but they are all quite amazing. The main characters are so fascinating and, regardless in what age you are in, you will fall in love with each and every one of them.
Living in the amazing world of Swallows and Amazons in the last few weeks, this is undoubtable one of the best books series I have ever read. Almost felt as though there could've been more later on. I was a bit bummed out to see how soon the story ended, without even hinting that this is the final story. It was great to have the entire squad for this last adventure, and to have a perfect ending, at least to this story. But it's only depressing until you remember that you can just go through the entire series again anytime you want. The author manages to bring one of the best of all to wrap the series, and I can't help but feel a bit sad that all of it comes to an end. "Peewits and Puffins, I mean."įinally down to the last book of Swallows and Amazons. "Jibbooms and bobstays!" exclaimed Nancy. All remain in print and have been widely translated.Īrthur Ransome died in June 1967 and is buried at Rusland in the Lake District. Today Ransome is best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of novels, (1931 - 1947). Settling in the Lake District, he spent the late 1920s as a foreign correspondent and highly-respected angling columnist for the Manchester Guardian, before settling down to write Swallows and Amazons and its successors. Ransome married Evgenia and returned to England in 1924.
These contacts led to persistent but unproven accusations that he "spied" for both the Bolsheviks and Britain. He knew many of the leading Bolsheviks, including Lenin, Radek, Trotsky and the latter's secretary, Evgenia Shvelpina. Petersburg, where he was ideally placed to observe and report on the Russian Revolution. He used this precarious existence to practice writing, producing several minor works before Bohemia in London (1907), a study of London's artistic scene and his first significant book.Īn interest in folklore, together with a desire to escape an unhappy first marriage, led Ransome to St. In 1902, Ransome abandoned a chemistry degree to become a publisher's office boy in London. Arthur Michell Ransome (Janu– June 3, 1967) was an English author and journalist.
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