Re: Commander Walker style upbringing


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Posted by Jock on January 06, 2007 at 11:23:37 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.

In Reply to: Re: Commander Walker style upbringing posted by Mike Dennis on January 06, 2007 at 10:14:34:

To me, and I have posted this thought before, the attraction of the SA books as a child was that what they did without adult interference. [my emphasis]

Ah, but did they really? Commander Walker had taught the Walkers to sail and a particularly Ransomish version of Navy discipline. The senior Walkers choose a holiday farmhouse which just happned to have a 14 ft dinghy available for the use of guests. A network of 'natives' kept an eye on the young Walkers. And when John sailed the Goblin back to Harwich, Commander Walker was there by his side.

I taught my crew to row and took them on a number of Northern River Pirate style sailing holidays on the Broads. Here, as well as participating in the sailing of the big yacht, they had their own adventures in the small lugsail tender that we always took with us. In later year's they organised their own Three Men in a Boat style camping skiff holidays on the River Thames.

I would argue that a degree of preliminary organisation by adults in not incompatible with the Ransome ethos.


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