Posted by 3rdamazon on February 20, 2007 at 19:57:04 from 172.209.25.49 user 3rdamazon.
In Reply to: motivation for "Riddle of the Sands" posted by Ed Kiser on February 18, 2007 at 21:00:19:
I think it's a reflection on Dot and Captain Flint mainly- their respective characters. After all, the whole bookshelf is fleshing out Captain Flint's character.
But it's also a reflection on the times. Maybe the young Ransome thought that ROTS was relevant to him, to Dot living in a comparitively secure world it isn't (and the non-presence of WW1 in the books does surprise me)