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  • Published: 30 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446483084
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 464

Swallowdale




A timeless classic, beautifully rejacketed. One of twelve Arthur Ransome titles reissued this month.

John, Susan, Titty and Roger return to the lake for another summer camping on their island with their old allies, Nancy and Peggy, otherwise known as the Amazon pirates. But immediately disaster strikes when the Swallows find themselves marooned ashore by the shipwreck of their boat. But if they can't have the island, there's always Swallowdale, the secret valley, hidden from the world and containing an extra secret concealed within it.

  • Published: 30 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446483084
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 464

About the author

Arthur Ransome

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.

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Praise for Swallowdale

Quite an achievement

The Guardian

Swallowdale is a real book . . . Even better than Swallows and Amazons

Time and Tide

There is plenty of excitement, a little danger, a quality of thinking, planning and fun which is delightful and stimulating

Times Literary Supplement