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Jon Sparks's avatar

It’s great to see this take on AR as a nature writer.

Although I never loved his East Anglia-set books as much as I did/do the Lake District ones, there’s no question that nature is very much to the fore in both Coot Club and The Big Six, indeed they make a good case for seeing AR as an early advocate for conservation. Also very obvious in Great Northern?, with the story hinging on defeating the egg-collector.

I’ve written various things about Ransome myself, including a recent piece on ‘Swallows, Amazons, and Adventure’ on my own Substack.

And Winter Holiday is my favourite too…

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Richard Carter's avatar

Loved the Swallows & Amazons books as a kid. The book I’m working on at the moment (about Charles Darwin) contains a chapter about dippers, in which I refer to the time Titty Walker observed one. Nine years back, I finally got to visit Wild Cat Island! http://richardcarter.com/sidelines/wild-cat-island/

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