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Arthur Ransome was born on January 18, 1884, in Leeds. His father, a professor of History, instilled in the young Arthur a love of nature by taking him sailing, camping and fishing in the Lake District. Every summer holiday was spent in at Swainson's Farm on the edge of Coniston Water, a place that Ransome was to return to again and again and became the location for Swallows and Amazons. Educated at Rugby, Ransome nursed a desire to become a writer from a very early age, being particularly fascinated by fairy stories. In 1929, he wrote the first of many stories revolving around the adventures of four children, based on four real-life children, including himself. The book was slow to sell at first but within three or four years of its publication it was universally accepted as a classic of children's literature. The sequel, Swallowdale, and another 10 books followed in quick succession and he won many awards, including the Carnegie Medal in 1936 for Pigeon Post. Arthur Ransome’s twelve books about adventures in small wooden boats are utterly captivating: you can almost feel the breeze on your cheeks, smell the "pemmican" (corned beef) sizzling in the pan over the fire, see the sun setting over the still water. Sailing at night, roaming through the woods, camping where and when one wishes. Fictional places, but recognisably based on the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. He died on 3rd June 1967. 1904 The ABC of Physical Culture 1904 The Souls of the Streets 1906 Highways And Byways In Fairyland 1906 Pond and Stream 1906 The Child's Book of the Seasons 1906 The Things in Our Garden 1907 Bohemia in London 1909 A History of Storytelling 1910 Edgar Allan Poe 1910 The Imp and the Elf and the Ogre 1910 The Book of Love 1911 The Hoofmarks of the Faun 1912 A Night In The Luxembourg. By Remy De Gourmont With Preface And Appendix By Arthur Ransome 1913 Life Of Oscar Wilde 1913 Portraits and Speculation 1915 The Elixir of life 1916 Old Peter's Russian Tales 1918 The Truth About Russia 1919 Six Weeks in Russia in 1919 1919 Lenin, the man and his work. By Albert Rhys Williams And The Impressions Of Col. Raymond Robins And Arthur Ransome 1920 The Soldier And Death 1920 The Crissis in Russia 1923 Racundra's First Cruise 1924 Aladdin in Rhyme 1927 The Chinese Puzzle 1929 Rod and Line 1930 Swallows and Amazons 1931 Swallowdale 1932 Peter Duck 1933 Winter Holiday 1934 Coot Club 1936 Pigeon Post 1937 We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea 1939 Secret Water 1940 The Big Six 1941 Missee Lee 1943 The Picts And The Martyrs 1946 Russian Fairy Tales 1947 Great Northern 1955 Fishing 1959 Mainly About Fishing 1964 A Walck Monograph by Hugh Shelley
1968 The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship 1976 Autobiography 1984 The War of the Birds and the Beasts and Other Russian Tales 1988 Coots in the North 1995 Arthur Ransome in Revolutionary Russia 1995 Favorite Russian Fairy Tales 1997 Signalling from Mars 2002 Racundra's Third Cruise 2005 Little Daughter of the Snow by Arthur Ransome 2005 The Firebird and Other Russian Fairy Tales LINKS: The Children's books of Arthur Ransome a survey by Robert Thompson Fantastic Fiction Arthur Ransome |