Did someone want questions for a FAQ


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Posted by Jenna Darter on September 04, 1998 at 20:43:16:

If I am on the wrong track you don't need to read the rest of this message. But I seem to remember someone was looking for questions to use to get started on a FAQ. Here's some ideas:

About the books:

  • How many Swallows and Amazons books are there?
    What order should I read them in?
  • Did Arthur Ransome write any other books?
    Are any of them for children?
  • Are there any movie versions?
    How do I get them?

    About the characters:

  • How old are the Swallows, Amazons and Ds?
  • Is the Ship's baby called Vicky or Bridget?
  • Who's older, Peggy or Susan?
  • Who are the real-life children which the Swallows were based on?

    About the places:

  • Is the lake a real place?
    What about Wild Cat Island, Swallowdale, Kanchenjunga, Lowestoft, Crab Island, Horning, Beccles, Harwich, Pin Mill, Flushing, Secret Water, Missee Lee's Three Islands and the nesting loch of the Great Northern Divers?
  • Are there tours of any of these places?
  • Were Swallow, Amazon, Titmouse, the Teasel,the Wild Cat, the Goblin and the Sea Bear real boats?
  • Tell me about the Nancy Blackett

    About old-fashioned/Britain-specific elements:

  • Explain telegrams, sandshoes, beef roll, motor goggles, lack of lifejackets, Primus,
    methylated spirit, the Big Six...

    Miscellaneous:

  • the full Morse code (I think only the semaphone alphabet is given in the books)

    About the author:

  • biography of Arthur Ransome

    Anyway, it's a start.


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