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Author_Arthur Ransome
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Product details
- ISBN 9780224606356
- Weight: 420g
- Dimensions: 140 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 24 Jun 1982
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
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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.
