The Picts and the Martyrs
or Not Welcome At All
$25.93
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2015
Summary
The poor old Amazons become Martyrs and the Ds become Picts who live in the woods, in Arthur Ransome’s 11th adventure.
The Ds can’t wait to go and stay with Nancy and Peggy in the Lake District during the summer holidays. But when the Amazons’ dreadful Great Aunt invites herself to stay too, the summer is threatened with dullness. Staying indoors and reading poetry is not what anyone had in mind.
To save the Ds from total boredom, the Amazons arrange for their friends to stay …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099589372 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099589370 |
| Author: | Arthur Ransome |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Children's Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2015 |
| Weight: | 380g |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 130mm x 188mm |
| Series: | Swallows And Amazons |
| Audience Age: | 9-11 |
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Critics Review
Stands out in triumph. It is firm, intelligent, in tune with twentieth-century mentality and well-written * Times Literary Supplement *
Quite up to the best standards of its predecessors, and to all old Ransome devotees the return to the lake of the first novels gives an added pleasure * Glasgow Herald *
Arthur Ransome
Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884. His adventurous life began early, as a baby he was carried by his father to the top of the Old Man of Coniston, a peak that is 2,276ft high.
He went to Russia in 1913 to study folklore. At the start of World War I in 1914, he became a foreign correspondent for the Daily News. During the Russian Revolution in 1917, he worked as a journalist and was a special correspondent for The Guardian. He played chess with Lenin and married Trotsky’s personal secretary, Evgenia Petrovna Shelepina.
Upon returning to England, he purchased a cottage near Windermere in the Lake District and began writing children’s stories. In an author’s note from 1958, Ransome reflected on the origins of Swallows and Amazons: “I have been often asked how I came to write Swallows and Amazons. The answer is that it had its beginning long, long ago when, as children, my brother, my sisters and I spent most of our holidays on a farm at the south end of Coniston. We played in or on the lake or on the hills above … Going away from it we were half drowned in tears. While away from it, as children and as grown-ups, we dreamt about it. No matter where I was, wandering about the world, I used at night to look for the North Star and, in my mind’s eye, could see the beloved sky-line of great hills beneath it. Swallows grew out of those old memories. I could not help writing it. It almost wrote itself.”
He published the first of his twelve Swallows and Amazons books in 1930. In 1936, he was awarded the inaugural Carnegie Medal for his book, Pigeon Post. Arthur Ransome died in 1967.
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