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The World of Arthur Ransome Christina Hardyment

The World of Arthur Ransome par Christina Hardyment

The World of Arthur Ransome Christina Hardyment


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Résumé

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.

The World of Arthur Ransome Résumé

The World of Arthur Ransome Christina Hardyment

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.

The World of Arthur Ransome Avis

A pleasantly nostalgic journey that will have you searching out your old books once more.


This beautifully illustrated book explores the places that shaped the writer, telling the story about his childhood, his friendships, his two wives and daughter. It also descibes how and where he wrote each of his 12 classic children's books.


'It's a magnificent production, giving the illustrations plenty of space to breathe, and, most importantly, a great, well-researched read. I'm loving it.'


'It's a magnificent production, giving the illustrations plenty of space to breathe, and, most importantly, a great, well-researched read. I'm loving it.'

If you're going to the Lakes, or you love Ransome's stories, this heavily-illustrated book is a treat

Christina Hardyment celebrates a life of houses, boats and books. There are wonderful pictures of the man, with his fine, bushy moustache enjoying sailing and fishing and pictures of the houses and boats and nostalgic pictures of the old books in their old dust jackets just as they were when they were first read

A pleasantly nostalgic journey that will have you searching out your old books once more.

This beautifully illustrated book explores the places that shaped the writer, telling the story about his childhood, his friendships, his two wives and daughter. It also descibes how and where he wrote each of his 12 classic children's books.

À propos de Christina Hardyment

Christina Hardyment has written books and articles on dizzying range of subjects (including her collection of historical sewing machines, domestic technology, family life and a biography of Sir Thomas Malory). She lives in a rambling house in Oxford with a huge garden, where she is already planning camps and a treehouse for her seven grandchildren. Time off is spent sailing on the river, in a British Moth dinghy.

To visit Christina Hardyment's website click here

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GOR006824133
9780711232976
0711232970
The World of Arthur Ransome Christina Hardyment
Occasion - Très bon état
Relié
Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
20121004
160
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