Posted by Harry Miller on November 12, 2005 at 03:49:50 from 24.42.71.107 user dreadnaught.
In Reply to: Re: Coots in the North: continuing the canon posted by alan truelove on November 11, 2005 at 16:36:19:
"Mastodon operates in some unexplained half-world (rather like Maurice in the Oxus books."
So he does. And just like in "Escape to Persia" where getting to the "Oxus" was by far the most interesting part of the story Ransome gave up when he didn't have a continuing story line that he thought was up to his standard. Or maybe this time he couldn't overcome Evgenia's objections.
(I'm certainly glad he overcame them in the case of The Picts and the Martyrs)