Swallows and Amazons Series 12 Books Collection Set by Arthur Ransome

Titles in this Set:-. Swallows and Amazons. Missee Lee. The Picts and the Martyrs. Great Northern?. Swallowdale. Peter Duck. Winter Holiday. Coot Club. Pigeon Post. We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea. Secret Water. The Big Six. Condition :BRAND NEW. Format : Paperback. ISBN : 9789123767700. About the Author:. 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.. Photography (c) Arthur Ransome's Literary Executors & courtesy of the Brotherton Collection, Leeds University Library