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Swallows and Amazons Series
Set on the English Lakes, rivers and estuaries, with occasional trips abroad, this series by Arthur Ransome follows the adventures of a set of English children messing about in boats:
- Swallows and Amazons (1930)
- Swallowdale (1932)
- Peter Duck (1933)
- Winter Holiday (1934)
- Coot Club (1935)
- Pigeon Post (1937)
- We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea (1938)
- Secret Water (1940)
- The Big Six (1940)
- Missee Lee (1942)
- The Picts and the Martyrs (1943)
- Great Northern? (1948)
- Coots in the North and Other Stories (a fragment) (1988)
Books in the Swallows and Amazons series:
Secret Water (1940)
The Swallows are set down on an island in a tidal estuary to explore and map it.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
Arthur Ransome
The Big Six (1941)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Missee Lee (1941)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Missee Lee (1942)
The Swallows, Amazons and Captain Flint are sailing around the world when they have to abandon ship off the coast of China. When they are captured by a female Chinese pirate, they end up forming a makeshift prep school.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Unknown
The Picts and the Martyrs (1943)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Unknown
The Picts and the Martyrs: or Not Welcome at All (1943)
Dick and Dorothea have come to the lake to stay with Nancy and Peggy, break in their new boat, Scarab and help Timothy with the copper assays when all is thrown into confusion by the arrival of the Great Aunt.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Great Northern? (1947)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Great Northern? (1948)
The Swallows, Amazons and D’s are cruising in the Hebrides with Captain Flint, when Dick discovers a nesting pair of loons, or great northern divers - but an egg blowing bird-man is also on their track.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Coots in the North and Other Stories (1988)
A fragment of a thirteenth Swallows and Amazons adventure where the Death and Glories travel to the lake.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Hilda Trefusis
The Swallows and the Amazons (1997)
This is a transcription of the original manuscript of Swallows and Amazons along with the original illustrations by Steven Spurrier which, aside from the dust jacket, were not used in the first edition as Ransome objected to them.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Steven Spurrier