The first of a series of novels by British
author Arthur Ransome, published in the UK
1930-47, describing the adventures of
children on holiday, set in the English Lake
District and East Anglia, and always
involving boats. Swallows and Amazons
introduces the two families featuring in most
of the series, the Walkers and the Blacketts,
and their sailing dinghies, Swallow and
Amazon respectively. Later books in the
series include Peter Duck 1932, Pigeon Post
1936, and We Didn`t Mean to Go to Sea 1937.