The Picts and the Martyrs: or Not Welcome At All (Swallows And Amazons, 11)

The Picts and the Martyrs: or Not Welcome At All (Swallows And Amazons, 11)

by Arthur Ransome (Author)

Synopsis

The poor old Amazons become Martyrs and the Ds Picts living in the woods, in Arthur Ransome's 11th adventure. 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. Staying indoors and reading poetry is not what the Amazons had in mind. To save the Ds from the same fate they organise for them to stay in the Dogs' Home, a tumble-down hut in the woods. As long as no one discovers they're there they can sail all summer long.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 27 Sep 1984

ISBN 10: 0224606417
ISBN 13: 9780224606417
Children’s book age: 7-9 Years

Media Reviews
Stands out in triumph. It is firm, intelligent, in tune with twentieth-century mentality and well-written * Times Literary Supplement *
Quite up to the best standards of its predecessors, and to all old Ransome devotees the return to the lake of the first novels gives an added pleasure * Glasgow Herald *
Author Bio
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 Amazon s. Thus began a writing career that has produced some of the best children s literature of all time.