![]() ![]() ![]() Also featured is the converted bank-barn above the Winster Valley where Swallows and Amazons was written. He goes to Nibthwaite, beside Coniston Water, where as a lad Ransome dipped a hand as a greeting to the lake. In these pages he visits such legendary Ransome haunts as ‘Wild Cat Island’, the steamboats that once ruled the Lakes, and Coniston Old Man. Bill has inquired diligently into Ransome’s local life and interests. ![]() The author, W R (Bill) Mitchell, knows the area especially well, editing the magazine Cumbria for many years in a period overlapping that of Ransome and absorbing the true life of the region. This book places special emphasis on his continuing association with Lakeland. Arthur Ransome remains famous not just for his Swallows and Amazons books but also for his close links with the Lake District. ![]()
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