Posted by RichardG on February 27, 2002 at 18:26:56 from 213.120.127.54:
In Reply to: Arthur Ransome & Capt Flint's Trunk posted by Mike Ridley on February 24, 2002 at 15:45:10:
If "AR & CF's T" is unavailable, presumably that means that the first draft beginning of "Peter Duck", which is printed in the book as "Their Own Story", is currently out of print. If so, this is a great shame, as it is a perfect piece of AR's writing featuring the Swallows, Amazons and Captain Flint in the winter following the action in S&A. It always seemed a shame to me that it was not included in the collection of unfinished stories in "Coots in the North". Has it ever appeared in print elsewhere ?