>>>I have read the Arthur Ransome Swallows & Amazons books perhaps 4 times.
Swallows & Amazons was the first real book I read as a 6yr old kid. As someone who was already knocking about in rowing/sailing boats on the river I was captivated. Shortly after it was made into a TV series shown in 1963 (B&W, not the later 1974 colour film)... had to go next door each week to watch it as we didn't have a TV at the time.
Read most of the other books but they were of variable quality. Very much liked *We didn't mean to go to sea* which I read a couple of years later.
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