Arthur Ransome (
1884 - [[
1967) is best known for writing the "Swallows and Amazons" series of children's books, which tell of school-holiday adventures, mostly in the Lake District and
Norfolk Broads areas of
England, and mostly involving small sailing boats. They remain extremely popular more than a half-century after their publication, to the point that they a basis of a tourist industry around
Lake Windermere[?].
Earlier in his life, Ransom was a reporter and writer who was interested in, and covered, the Russian Revolution.
- Swallows and Amazons (1930)"
- Swallowdale (1931)"
- Peter Duck (1932)"
- Winter Holiday (1933)"
- Coot Club (1934)"
- Pigeon Post (1936)"
- We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea (1937)"
- Secret Water (1939)"
- The Big Six (1940)"
- Missee Lee (1941)"
- The Picts And The Martyrs (1943)"
- Great Northern? (1947)"