Posted by Jock on February 01, 2000 at 14:26:20 from 212.244.243.30:
In Reply to: Re: River Crake vs Pull Beck posted by Iain Hobbs on February 01, 2000 at 08:45:47:
Very interesting! Although, I must confess that I had up to now
accepted the Amazon = Crake convention, you have weakened this
hypothesis with your well aimed cannon shots.
However, I don't think that AR 'enchanced the level' of Pull Beck.
With the effect of modern fertilizers accelerating plant growth
Octapus Lagoon could easily really have been just as described in
SA in AR's day (boyhood?). This process of water gradually turning
into land can also be observed in some of the Norfolk Broads. If
Windmere has been "dropped" about a foot because of water extraction
or as flood prevention measure, the process would have been
accelerated.
There are stiil a few distant lands where AR's books are unkown.
For those of us living in such places it would be fascinating if
your article (and the contributions of others) on the origins of
the Amazons could appear somewhere on the Arthur Ransome pages.
How about it Ian E-N?