Re: [bolger] PCB on Aurthur Ransome
S & A series is (are) my earliest memories of my Mother reading to me pre-school ('50's)...maybe that's where I got the hook for Boats and Boating....
Norm
Norm
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From: Harry W. James
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Subject: Re: [bolger] PCB on Aurthur Ransome
All the series are still in print. I have read some at least 10 times
starting when I was 9 and still reading.
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All the series are still in print. I have read some at least 10 times
starting when I was 9 and still reading.
HJ
brucehallman wrote:
starting when I was 9 and still reading.
HJ
brucehallman wrote:
>
> I just stumbled across a
> short description of
> Swallows, Amazons and
> Arthur Ransome, by
> PCB from an old SBJ.
> I found this interesting
> and other's 'round
> might too:
> ====================
> ...excerpted from
> Small Boat Journal #68
> August/September 1989...
>
> SWALLOWS, AMAZONS,
> AND ARTHUR RANSOME
>
> For readers who dont know
> Arthur Ransome's books, they're
> about several familieS Of children
> who go camping in sailing dinghies
> on a fictional lake resembling Wind-
> emere in the north of England.
> Later books place them on the
> Norfolk Broads, the Thames Estu-
> ary, and elsewhere.
> The dinghies are bettween 13
> and 14 leet long, lapstrake, with
> full lines in the usual British fashion
> of the 1920's. They all have standing
> lug cat rigs. Amazon and Scarab
> are conventional center-
> boarder's; Swallow has a shallow
> keel and is substantially ballasted-
> a dangerous boat by current stan-
> dards, but they had a different atti-
> tude when these boats were plot
> ted. The father of "the Swallows" a
> Royal Navy officer on foreign ser-
> ice, writes his approval of the
> childrens camping trip: "Better
> drowned than dufters, If not duf-
> fers won't drown."
> A foreign correspondent for the
> Manchester Guardian. Arthur Ran-
> some specialized in revolutionary
> Russia. He had no visible political
> preferences of his own, but be-
> came controversial through criti
> cism of Churchill S counter-revolu-
> tionary policy, and suspect by close
> acquaintance with Lenin and other
> leading Bolsheviks, He also worked
> in Egypt, and in China during the
> warlord era. Ransome believed that
> his childrens books were the real
> achievement of his career. I doubt
> that anybody anywhcre disagrees.
> Philip C. Bolger
>
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I just stumbled across a
short description of
Swallows, Amazons and
Arthur Ransome, by
PCB from an old SBJ.
I found this interesting
and other's 'round
might too:
====================
...excerpted from
Small Boat Journal #68
August/September 1989...
SWALLOWS, AMAZONS,
AND ARTHUR RANSOME
For readers who dont know
Arthur Ransome's books, they're
about several familieS Of children
who go camping in sailing dinghies
on a fictional lake resembling Wind-
emere in the north of England.
Later books place them on the
Norfolk Broads, the Thames Estu-
ary, and elsewhere.
The dinghies are bettween 13
and 14 leet long, lapstrake, with
full lines in the usual British fashion
of the 1920's. They all have standing
lug cat rigs. Amazon and Scarab
are conventional center-
boarder's; Swallow has a shallow
keel and is substantially ballasted-
a dangerous boat by current stan-
dards, but they had a different atti-
tude when these boats were plot
ted. The father of "the Swallows" a
Royal Navy officer on foreign ser-
ice, writes his approval of the
childrens camping trip: "Better
drowned than dufters, If not duf-
fers won't drown."
A foreign correspondent for the
Manchester Guardian. Arthur Ran-
some specialized in revolutionary
Russia. He had no visible political
preferences of his own, but be-
came controversial through criti
cism of Churchill S counter-revolu-
tionary policy, and suspect by close
acquaintance with Lenin and other
leading Bolsheviks, He also worked
in Egypt, and in China during the
warlord era. Ransome believed that
his childrens books were the real
achievement of his career. I doubt
that anybody anywhcre disagrees.
Philip C. Bolger
short description of
Swallows, Amazons and
Arthur Ransome, by
PCB from an old SBJ.
I found this interesting
and other's 'round
might too:
====================
...excerpted from
Small Boat Journal #68
August/September 1989...
SWALLOWS, AMAZONS,
AND ARTHUR RANSOME
For readers who dont know
Arthur Ransome's books, they're
about several familieS Of children
who go camping in sailing dinghies
on a fictional lake resembling Wind-
emere in the north of England.
Later books place them on the
Norfolk Broads, the Thames Estu-
ary, and elsewhere.
The dinghies are bettween 13
and 14 leet long, lapstrake, with
full lines in the usual British fashion
of the 1920's. They all have standing
lug cat rigs. Amazon and Scarab
are conventional center-
boarder's; Swallow has a shallow
keel and is substantially ballasted-
a dangerous boat by current stan-
dards, but they had a different atti-
tude when these boats were plot
ted. The father of "the Swallows" a
Royal Navy officer on foreign ser-
ice, writes his approval of the
childrens camping trip: "Better
drowned than dufters, If not duf-
fers won't drown."
A foreign correspondent for the
Manchester Guardian. Arthur Ran-
some specialized in revolutionary
Russia. He had no visible political
preferences of his own, but be-
came controversial through criti
cism of Churchill S counter-revolu-
tionary policy, and suspect by close
acquaintance with Lenin and other
leading Bolsheviks, He also worked
in Egypt, and in China during the
warlord era. Ransome believed that
his childrens books were the real
achievement of his career. I doubt
that anybody anywhcre disagrees.
Philip C. Bolger