Re: Egg-collecting & AR's influence


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Posted by andy bolger on November 18, 2002 at 20:30:33 from 62.7.17.182 user beardbiter.

In Reply to: Egg-collecting posted by Duncan on November 18, 2002 at 10:40:26:

That was one of the interesting points about the Matless article I referred to. He seemed to think that AR was important, not just important to a few devotees but important in the sense of having an influence on history.
Matless links AR with helping promote the kind of activities and attitudes to the Broads that led to the recent setting up of the Broads as a National Park promoting the "quiet enjoyment" of the country side over a Hullabullooland Theme Park. Of course, AR didn't have anything to do with this directly but he was cited by those campaigning for a National Park e.g "Many people who remembered the idyll of Arthur Ransome, the crystal clear water, the days when sails outnumbered motor boats and when the bittern’s boom was more often heard than that of
the ghetto blaster"
and as Matless shows, AR's works were part of a long tradition which encouraged people to see the Broads as places for bitterns and horny handed sailors not Hullabaloos.
So may be he had some influence on egg collecting too.



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