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Synopsis
Six friends, in the last days of their summer vacation on England's watery Norfolk Broads, determine to find out who is constantly setting boats adrift along the river, ...
Biography
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 Amazons. Thus began a writing career that has produced some of the best children’s literature of all time.