Posted by Dave Thewlis on October 04, 2003 at 15:26:55 from 148.78.245.12 user dthewlis.
In Reply to: Canadian fraternization posted by Adam Quinan on October 04, 2003 at 02:48:46:
And in the case of the U.S. if there's a common thread amongst TARSUS members it is that they had "never found another person who had even heard of Arthur Ransome" until they stumbled across TARS.
Granted this summons up an image of the Ancient Mariner stopping one in three and demanding if they had ever heard of AR, and I doubt that very many of us actually did that. When I was a child I found the S&A series in the local library and was initially attracted by the lovely covers with all the illustrations from the book. Later as a teenager I worked in that same library for several months. The AR books definitely circulated - you could tell by the date stamps on the log page in the back (or front) inside cover. But I never met anybody who'd read them.