Re: The Amazon, Mavis or Beetle..?

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Posted by Ian Wright on 09/27/00 from 62.136.71.139 via proxy webcache06b.cache.pol.co.uk:

In Reply to: The Amazon, Mavis or Beetle..? posted by Andy Morley on September 10, 2000 at 11:23:05:

--- In 0pen0penBoat@egroups.com, "Andy Morley" wrote:
> The question of which boat inspired Ransome's Amazon is
> about to turn into a humdinger.

I wonder if the fact that Arthur Ransome changed many details of Amazon between editions might clear/muddy the waters a little/
In the first edition for example he writes of her "gaff", but changed it to "yard" later. A change of boats or a change of heart?

IanW

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