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The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome
The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome, Arthur Ransome’s autobiography, ended in 1932, but was published on 9 September 1976, after both Arthur and Evgenia had died. It was written (mainly) between 1949 and 1961, when -
Arthur Ransome and Capt. Flint's Trunk
Arthur Ransome and Capt. Flint's Trunk is a book by Christina Hardyment. First published in 1984, it was instrumental in rallying fans of Arthur Ransome into becoming active and organised. The author's comments -
Beckfoot
Beckfoot is a two-story grey stone house (WH10), the home of the Blacketts (Nancy, Peggy, Mrs Blackett and - sometimes - Captain Flint). It is located on the banks of the Amazon River where it flows -
Mrs Barrable
Mrs Barrable was Mrs Callum's school mistress long ago; she is a painter, and the sister of Richard, a “very famous portrait painter”. In Coot Club Mrs Barrable and her brother had hired the -
Susan Walker
Susan Walker is the Mate of the Swallow, the second oldest of the Walker family children. Susan as the cook is responsible for stores, sleeping arrangements and safety. Along with John, Susan is the chief -
1932
Numbers are actual dates in August 1932 (PM16); names are chapter titles (dates and events in parentheses occur outside the book's timeline). Events described in'Coots in the North' -
Coots in the North
Arthur Ransome's incomplete children's novel'Coots in the North' was usurped by the publication of Great Northern?, though chronologically it would have been set at an earlier date. The story starts in the -
Hullabaloos
They wear gaudy clothes; white-topped yachting caps, shirts, berets and bright beach pyjamas (CC7,28,29). They are inconsiderate, ploughing through the racing yachts, and speeding so that they upset the Titmouse and Miss -
Nancy Blackett (yacht)
Nancy Blackett is a 28 feet long, 7 ton, Bermuda rigged Hillyard sailing cutter built in 1931 and now owned and operated by The Nancy Blackett Trust. Originally named Spindrift at her launch (and then -
Crab Island
Crab Island is an island in the Caribbean Sea on which the young Peter Duck was washed-up after being shipwrecked, about 1870. While living as a castaway on the island, Peter Duck saw two -
Head of the lake
The head of the lake is a native settlement at the northern end of the Lake, also known as the Arctic. Appearances and mentions[] The local church is there, as the Great Aunt goes there -
High Topps
High Topps is a high, fell area, to the west of the Lake, above the upper reaches of the Valley of the Amazon, close to Kanchenjunga and its spurs, Grey Screes and Ling Scar. It -
M Braithwaite
Mrs M Braithwaite, usually addressed as Cook or cook but sometimes cooky dear is the Blackett family's doting cook at Beckfoot. When Mrs Braithwaite leaves food for the Ds at The Dog's Home -
Mastodon
The Mastodon, actual name Don, is a member of a savage tribe, the Eels, and lives on Speedy, the hulk of a barge, half swallowed by the mud, in a creek between Mastodon Island (adjacent -
Colonel Jolys
Colonel T E Jolys DSO (Tommy Jolys) is a retired army officer, organizer of the district firefighters, leader of men, hero of many wars (PM29). He is a near-contemporary of Maria Turner, probably a -
Gibber
Gibber is the monkey which Captain Flint gives to Roger Walker as his reward for his part in finding the stolen manuscript of Mixed Moss. Unlike Polly, Titty's parrot, Gibber only appears in two -
Violence
Violence is the expression of physical or verbal force against one or more people, compelling action against one's will on pain of being hurt. Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series, which contains violence -
Goblin
Goblin is closely based on Ransome's own yacht the Nancy Blackett. She is a small white Bermuda sloop rigged yacht with red sails and a Handy Billy auxiliary petrol engine. Jim Brading owns her -
Hundredth port
The hundredth port of Wild Cat's second voyage is described in Chapter 1 of Missee Lee It is an un-named port close to the mainland of China, visited on Wild Cat's second -
Olo Lee
Olo Lee the father of Miss Lee organised the Three Islands pirates into a protection racket. He said that they were not to attack each other, and were not to take English prisoners to avoid -
Foot of the lake
Foot of the Lake is also known as the Antarctic or the Low End. The town of Bigland is beyond the foot of the Lake. The Lake presumably drains into the (unnamed) river at the -
Racundra
Racundra, built in 1921-22 in Riga, Latvia, was one of Arthur Ransome's first cruising yachts, and replaced Kittiwake. Racundra's cruise from Riga, across the Baltic, to Helsingfors and back with Ransome, the -
Rio
Rio is named for the destination Rio Grande mentioned in the sea song'Away to Rio' (SA3). The canonical pronunciation of Rio might be "rye-oh" rather than "ree-oh". Nancy says... we'll agree -
Tom Dudgeon
Tom Dudgeon is the skipper of the Titmouse and leader of the Coot Club. He is the older son of Dr Dudgeon and Ella Dudgeon and older brother to "our baby". Tom is older than -
Swallow
Swallow is a Morecambe Bay sailing dinghy, a fourteen-foot dinghy with a brown sail (SA1). She was built for sailing on a shallow estuary, where the sands were uncovered at low tide and is
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