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While working on his book The Life of Arthur Ransome, Hugh Brogan chanced upon the unfinished scrip of a thirteenth ‘Swallows and Amazons’ story in Ransome’s desk in the Abbot Hall Museum in Cumbria, where it had lain unknown except to a few. It had no title (‘Coots in the North’ is Brogan’s invention) but there were a few preliminary drawings which Ransome might have included had this gem been brought to life in book form. Why he abandoned it is not know, for he left a clear outline of how he intended to go on once the three young Coots – Joe, Bill and Pete – had completed their hair-raising journey as stowaways from Norfolk to the lakes in the North. There, on a salvage mission, they encounter for the first time the intrepid Nancy Blackett.

‘Coots in the North’ is introduced by Brogan’s lively account of how Arthur Ransome found fame and fortune through the Swallows and Amazons, and is accompanied in this collection by other delights which turned up among Ransome’s papres in the Brotherton Library at Leeds University. An unfinished Victorian ‘Bevis’-style novel yielded two superb stories, complete in themselves – ‘The Cloudburst’ and a fishing tale called ‘The River Comes First’. The Baltic sailing mysteries originally published in Pall Mall Magazine in 1929, ‘Two Shorts and a Long’ and ‘The Unofficial Side’; the Breton ghost story ‘Ankou’, which first appeared in English review in1914; and an eerie cautionary tale of old Russia called ‘The Shepherd’s Pipe’ complete this testament to Ransome’s storytelling genius, which should not be missed by enthusiasts young or old.

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Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884 and went to school at Rugby. He was in Russia in 1917, and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian.

After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District with his Russian wife where, in 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. And so began a writing career which has produced some of the real children's treasures of all time. In 1936 he won the first ever Carnegie Medal for his book, Pigeon Post.

Ransome died in 1967. He and his wife Evgenia lie buried in the churchyard of St Paul's Church, Rusland, in the southern Lake District.
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This book comprises a collection of stories found by Hugh Brogan among Arthur Ransome's papers. In the unfinished thirteenth "Swallows and Amazons" adventure three young Coots - Joe, Bill and Pete - undergo a hair-raising journey as stowaways from Norfolk to the Lakes. There they encounter the intrepid Nancy Blackett. The other stories include "The Cloudburst", a fishing tale called "Where is Thomas Staunton?", the Baltic sailing mysteries "Two Shorts and a Long" and "The Unofficial Side", the Breton ghost story "Ankou" and an eerie cautionary tale of old Russia called "The Shepherd's Pipe". The text is accompanied by Ransome's own drawings.

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  • PublisherJonathan Cape
  • Publication date1988
  • ISBN 10 0224026054
  • ISBN 13 9780224026055
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages144
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