The Picts and the Martyrs

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Author: Arthur Ransome

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…

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SKU 9780099589372 Category Fiction (8-12) Tags Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons

Description

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 in a tumble-down hut in the woods.

And as long as no one discovers they’re there they can sail all summer long…

Backstory: you can learn how to make a campfire!

More Titles from Author:

The Picts and the Martyrs
Great Northern?
Missee Lee
The Big Six
Secret Water
We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea
Coot Club
Pigeon Post
Winter Holiday
Swallowdale
Swallows and Amazons

Arthur Ransome was born in 1884. 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 of England with his Russian wife where, in 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. Thus began a writing career that has produced some of the best children’s literature of all time.