![]() Between the six of them, soon known as the Swallows and Amazons, the children create a world of wild forests and robberies, of treasure and of treachery in which they team up against the Blackett’s Uncle who they refer to as Captain Flint. The Walker children – John, Susan, Titty and Roger borrow a dinghy called Swallow which they sail out to the island, where they meet Nancy and Peggy Blackett, sailing a dinghy called Amazon. ![]() It tells the story of two sets of children, the Walkers and the Blacketts, who spend their summer holidays camping out on an island near the Lake District. ![]() Having recently finished The Snow Child, which was based on a Russian Fairytale called Little Daughter of the Snow by Arthur Ransome, I decided to read Swallows and Amazons, one of Ransome’s best-loved books, and indeed perhaps his most famous, which came in at a respectable number 57 in the BBC’s Big Read.įirst published in 1930, the book was inspired by a summer spent by Ransome teaching the children of his friends, to sail. ![]()
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