Posted by Tim Johns on March 30, 2004 at 10:56:54 from 147.188.176.135 user Tim.
I'm sorry to be flogging yet again a recently-exercised horse,
but there is a good case for claiming W.G. Collingwood's
'Thorstein of the Mere' as Ransome's favourite book. The basis for
that claim can be found in the superb essay 'Thorstein's Country'
that he wrote for his 'Drawn at a Venture'column in the Guardian.
That essay (with the kind permsssion of the the literary executors)
together with the full text of 'Thorstein' can now be found on the
Literary Page of the Arthur Ransome web site.