![]() ![]() ![]() I like Ransome's ability to capture what it is like to be young and to portray this in the spectacular scenery of the Lake District. And this is one of his many strengths as a writer and as a human being. Ransome, while he reproduces the manner in which they speak, in no way paints them as yokels but as sympathetic characters in their own right. The action is centred on the 'conquest' of Kanchenjunga (the Himalayas were a big focus for expeditions at the time when Ransome wrote this - 1931), a sprained ankle, hurried meetings between the Swallows and the Amazons and a race at the end after the successful repair of the Swallow.Īlong the way, however, we meet a few rustic characters - the charcoal-burners and some members of the Swainson family. The Blacketts do not have an equal role in the tale, having been forced to spend seemingly all their waking hours entertaining their great-aunt Maria, an aunt more formidable than any dreamt up by P G Wodehouse. ![]() The sequel to 'Swallows and Amazons' sees the Walker children camping around the Old Man of Coniston (renamed 'Kanchenjunga' by them), following a small boating accident which has the Swallow put in for repairs. ![]()
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