Christina Hardyment places the much-loved English author Arthur Ransome in the settings which so richly define his work, from the Lake District to the Norfolk Broads.
Most famous as the author of "Swallows And Amazons", Ransome was also a literary critic, foreign correspondent, fisherman and sailor. Hardyment explores the places that made him the man he was, from his childhood to his later life with his wife and daughters, such as Coniston Water, Cartmel Fell and East Anglia. Illustrated.
