Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on July 23, 2003 at 22:19:54 from 195.93.32.8 user ACB.
In Reply to: Broadening one's horizons posted by Ross Ruschman on July 23, 2003 at 17:43:59:
In my case, the answer is "yes". I was moved to read both as a child by having first read Ransome. But this leads on to a general thought - what a very literary lot the Swallows and Amazons are - not just knowing their Keats looking into Chapman's Homer, but Hakluyt's Voyages, forsooth!