Posted by Adam Quinan on July 04, 2005 at 03:12:58 from 65.48.152.132 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: Peter Duck posted by Hilary Weston on July 03, 2005 at 23:19:36:
According to Christina Hardyment's "Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint's Trunk", Ransome started writing the opening chapters of Peter Duck immediately after he finished Swallows and Amazons. It was a story being made up by the Swallows and Amazons while on a winter holiday on a wherry with Captain Flint. However he was having problems with it so he moved on to Swallowdale, but kept the Peter Duck references in SD. Later when on holiday with the Altounyans in Syria he worked out that it should be a straight story without the surrounding wherry holiday which was complicating and slowing down the book. He wrote a lot of it in Syria.