Posted by Owen Roberts on January 05, 2009 at 19:30:29 user OwenRoberts.
In Reply to: Re: How old...? (Again??) posted by Pam Adams on January 05, 2009 at 00:21:49:
I have always assumed that the disparity between the Swallows and the Amazons approach to mapping in SW was because
1. The Swallows had grown up in the immediately preseeding WDM.
2. The Swallows had been set a task by their father, whereas the Amazons had been invited for a holiday (I think) by Mrs Walker.
3. To have the Amazons and Eels together made a better savage horde for the purposes of the story.