Arthur Ransome (1884–1967)
Autor/a de Swallows and Amazons
Sobre l'autor
Children's author Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds, England on January 18, 1884. As a child, he spent many vacations sailing, camping, and exploring the countryside in England's Lake Country. He studied chemistry for one year at Yorkshire College before dropping out to become a writer. He worked mostra'n més for a London publisher and then for the Manchester Guardian newspaper. He wrote his first book, Bohemia in London, in 1907 and went to study folklore in Russia in 1913. In 1916, he published Old Peter's Russian Tales, a collection of 21 folktales. During World War I, he became a reporter for the Daily News and covered the war on the Eastern Front. While in Russia, he also covered the Russian Revolution in 1917. He eventually settled in England's Lake District with his second wife. In 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons, which was the first book in his well-know Swallows and Amazons series about children who sail and explore the lakes and mountains of England. He drew inspiration for the books from his own childhood memories. In 1936, he won the Carnegie Medal for children's literature for Pigeon Post. He died on June 3, 1967. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Sèrie
Obres de Arthur Ransome
Peter Duck : a treasure hunt in the Caribbees (1932) — Autor; Il·lustrador, algunes edicions — 1,017 exemplars
Arthur Ransome Collection Vintage Children's Classics 6 Books Bundle (Coot Club, Peter Duck, Pigeon Post, Swallowdale,… (2016) 11 exemplars
The Swallows and Amazons Adventures, Part I 4 exemplars
The twilight years 3 exemplars
Swallows and Amazons Series Collection Series 4 Books (Winter Holiday, Peter Duck, Swallowdale, Swallows and Amazons)… (2018) 3 exemplars
Svalerne på Vinterferie 2 exemplars
Svalerne på Skatteøen 2 exemplars
Svalerne som Guldgravere 2 exemplars
Svalerne på Fastlandet 2 exemplars
Svalerne og den Sorte Skonnert 2 exemplars
Svalerne og Den mystiske Mand 2 exemplars
Svalerne går i Land 2 exemplars
Svalerne og Piraterne 2 exemplars
Highways and byways in fairy land 2 exemplars
Svalerne på Opdagelse 2 exemplars
Swallows and Amazons The Picts and the Martyrs 1 exemplars
Wyspa krabów 1 exemplars
Cuentos Rusos Del Abuelo Pedro I 1 exemplars
Pierre Canné [manuscript] 1 exemplars
Swallows And Amazons Adventures Set 2 Featuring Missee Lee, The Big Six, Coot Club, Winter Holiday, Great Northern And… (2005) 1 exemplars
RANSOME ON BLUE WATER SAILING 1 exemplars
The stone lady 1 exemplars
The Swallows and Amazons Adventures, Part II 1 exemplars
Drawn at a venture 1 exemplars
[Unknown] 1 exemplars
The A.B.C. of physical culture 1 exemplars
Swallowdale [abridged audiobook] 1 exemplars
ATONEMENT, THE 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Sailing alone around the world, and Voyage of the Liberdade (1948) — Introducció, algunes edicions — 118 exemplars
Oscar Wilde: Collection of 300 Classic Works with Analysis and Historical Background (2013) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
Stories by Daudet and Coppée — Editor — 3 exemplars
Then and Now. A Selection of Articles, Stories & Poems, Taken from the First Fifty Numbers of ‘Now & Then’,… (1935) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Stories for girls — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
British country life in autumn and winter : the book of the open air (1907) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Ransome, Arthur Michell
- Altres noms
- Ransome, Arthur M.
Blunt, William (pseudonym|1939-1940) - Data de naixement
- 1884-01-18
- Data de defunció
- 1967-06-03
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Rusland churchyard, England
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Lloc de defunció
- Cheadle, Cheshire, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK (birthplace)
London, England, UK
Petersfield, Hampshire, England, UK
Hatch, Wiltshire, England, UK
St. Petersburg, Russia
Riga, Latvia (mostra-les totes 10)
Ludderburn, Cumbria, England, UK
Levington, Suffolk, England, UK
Nibthwaithe, Lancashire, England, UK
Haverthwaite, Lancashire, England, UK - Educació
- Old College, Windermere
Rugby School
Yorkshire College - Professions
- journalist
foreign correspondent
literary critic
columnist
sailor
fisherman (mostra-les totes 9)
children's author
illustrator
autobiographer - Relacions
- Ransome, Cyril (father)
Lupton, Joyce (sister)
Lupton, Hugh (great-nephew) - Organitzacions
- Temple Bar Magazine (editor)
Daily News
Manchester Guardian
London Library (1903-) - Premis i honors
- DLitt (h.c. ∙ Durham University)
- Biografia breu
- Arthur Ransome used the pseudonym William Blunt as a reviewer of new detective novels for The Observer between 1939 and 1940.
Membres
Converses
Arthur Ransome a Legacy Libraries (agost 2013)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Books About Boys (1)
Ambleside Y3 (1)
4th Grade Books (1)
1930s (1)
BBC Big Read (1)
Spirit of Place (4)
Put a Bird On It (3)
Best Sea Stories (2)
Ambleside Books (2)
Elevenses (2)
BBC Big Read (1)
Favorite Series (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 105
- També de
- 60
- Membres
- 15,924
- Popularitat
- #1,424
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 272
- ISBN
- 458
- Llengües
- 11
- Preferit
- 48
The children have gathered in Lowestoft to join Captain Flint (Nancy and Peggy's uncle) on the schooner Wild Cat. They meet a crusty old salt named Peter Duck who volunteers to fill in for the other adult who is delayed and can't join them. Peter tells them a yarn about being shipwrecked as a ship's boy and seeing pirates bury treasure at the foot of a palm tree. Excited by the prospect of real buried treasure, Captain Flint and the Swallows and Amazons crew are off for the Caribbees, trailed by the notorious pirate Black Jake and The Viper. Adventures abound and once more the children must rely on their wits and each other as they sail across the Atlantic.
Although the middle of the book dragged a bit, the action in the last third is nonstop excitement. I look forward to returning to England and the adventures of the Swallows and Amazon in a more realistic setting.… (més)