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Arthur Ransome is most famous as the author of Swallows and Amazons, but he was also a literary critic, a foreign correspondent, a fisherman and a sailor. The World of Arthur Ransome explores the places that shaped the writer. It tells the story of his childhood, his friendships, his two wives and daughter. It also describes how and where he wrote each of his twelve classic children' s books, and the people and books that inspired them. There is no doubt that Ransome' s spiritual home was the ' Lake in the North' where he set five of his twelve iconic books for children. He holidayed on the banks of Coniston Water as a boy and camped there as a young man, but his most important and longest-lasting home was Low Ludderburn, on the slopes of Cartmel Fell and close to Lake Windermere. There he wrote Swallows and Amazons and three of its sequels. Another four of his books were set in East Anglia, where he moved so that he could sail on the Norfolk Broads and the east coast rivers around Pin Mill. Here shipboard domestic arrangements came to the fore: all the cabins of his boats were equipped with writing desks and a bookcase. He was never happier than when writing while afloat in his favourite little yacht, the Nancy Blackett, immortalized as Goblin in We Didn' t Mean to Go To Sea. With a keen and affectionate eye, Christina Hardyment places this most loved of English authors in the settings which so richly define his work.… (més)
Ransome's relationship with Estonia in his time as the Guardian's Russian correspondent is covered on pages 59/60, with further information about his time in Estonia on pages 60-62. Lots of illustrations and swift, short chapters. The energy Ransome must have had is hard to believe let alone the constant movement from one place to the other.
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'Houses are but badly-built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them . . . The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting-place.'
Arthur Ransome, Racundra's First Cruise.
Dedicatòria
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To Paul and Cecilia Flint, who made me feel at home in Ransome country
Primeres paraules
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Arthur Ransome moved countless times, and late in life accurately referred to his succession of London dwellings as camps.
Preface.
Citacions
Darreres paraules
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Like Nancy Blackett, she now appears at a variety of events around the country and is made available for enthusiasts to sail (see www.sailransome.org), and so to experience adventure in true Ransome style.
Arthur Ransome is most famous as the author of Swallows and Amazons, but he was also a literary critic, a foreign correspondent, a fisherman and a sailor. The World of Arthur Ransome explores the places that shaped the writer. It tells the story of his childhood, his friendships, his two wives and daughter. It also describes how and where he wrote each of his twelve classic children' s books, and the people and books that inspired them. There is no doubt that Ransome' s spiritual home was the ' Lake in the North' where he set five of his twelve iconic books for children. He holidayed on the banks of Coniston Water as a boy and camped there as a young man, but his most important and longest-lasting home was Low Ludderburn, on the slopes of Cartmel Fell and close to Lake Windermere. There he wrote Swallows and Amazons and three of its sequels. Another four of his books were set in East Anglia, where he moved so that he could sail on the Norfolk Broads and the east coast rivers around Pin Mill. Here shipboard domestic arrangements came to the fore: all the cabins of his boats were equipped with writing desks and a bookcase. He was never happier than when writing while afloat in his favourite little yacht, the Nancy Blackett, immortalized as Goblin in We Didn' t Mean to Go To Sea. With a keen and affectionate eye, Christina Hardyment places this most loved of English authors in the settings which so richly define his work.