This book is part of a book series called Dover Childrens Thrift Classics .

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 1995 by Dover Publications Inc. .

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. "