![]() ![]() In 2003, the novel was listed at number 57 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. However, later in life Ransome tried to downplay the Altounyan connections, changing the initial dedication of Swallows and Amazons and writing a new foreword which gave other sources. Ransome kept Swallow until he sold it a number of years later, while Mavis remained in the Altounyan family and is now on permanent display in the Ruskin Museum. Ransome and Ernest Altounyan bought two small dinghies called Swallow and Mavis. ![]() Three of the Altounyan children's names are adopted directly for the Walker family. The book was inspired by a summer spent by Ransome teaching the children of his friends, the Altounyans, to sail. He did continue to write part-time for the press, however. It is the first book in the Swallows and Amazons series, followed by Swallowdale.Īt the time, Ransome had been working as a journalist with the Manchester Guardian, but decided to become a full-time author rather than go abroad as a foreign correspondent. We also meet Nancy and Peggy Blackett (Amazons) their uncle Jim (James Turner), commonly referred to as Captain Flint and their widowed mother, Molly Blackett. ![]() Set in the summer of 1929 in the Lake District, the book introduces the main characters of John, Susan, Titty and Roger Walker (Swallows) as well as their mother, Mary and their baby sister, Bridget (nicknamed Vicky). Swallows and Amazons is a children's adventure novel by English author Arthur Ransome and first published on 21 July 1930 by Jonathan Cape. ![]()
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