Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884 and went to school at
Rugby. He was in Russia in 1917, 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 1929, 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.
Ransome died in 1967. He and his wife Evgenia lie buried in the
churchyard of St Paul's Church, Rusland, in the southern Lake
District.
Stands out in triumph. It is firm, intelligent, in tune with
twentieth-century mentality and well-written
*Times Literary Supplement*
Quite up to the best standards of its predecessors, and to all old
Ransome devotees the return to the lake of the first novels gives
an added pleasure
*Glasgow Herald*
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