Why "Swallows and Amazons Forever"?


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Posted by Adam Quinan on November 01, 1996 at 13:35:37:

I have just read a message which refers to an abridged and combined version of The Big Six and Coot Club as
Swallows and Amazons Forever.

Why? There is not a Swallow or Amazon in sight! Is this some attempt to play on the name recognition?

It seems that, although the Eastern England Ransome Books are almost as numerous and in no way inferior to
the Lakeland ones, Ransome seems somehow tied in everyone's thought to the Lakes.

Incidentally my first Ransome was Peter Duck at the age of seven or eight. I remember enjoying it but not
really reading others for a few years. I think I didn't realise it was one of a series because of its somewhat
different plot line.



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