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Far Headingley

Arthur Ransome, author of the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, was born in Headingley but moved to Far Headingley as a child in 1890.

River Mite

Upper Miterdale formed one of the archetypes upon which Arthur Ransome based the valley of Swallowdale in the eponymous volume of Swallows and Amazons series of stories.

Sea Urchins

Described as a saltwater Swallows and Amazons, it was shot on the Mahurangi Peninsula in the Hauraki Gulf, where the plucky “urchins” stumble on villanious plots from missing treasure to wildlife smuggling while holidaying with their uncle.

Coots in the North

Coots in the North is the name given by Arthur Ransome's biographer, Hugh Brogan to an incomplete Swallows and Amazons novel found in Ransome's papers.

Metaldehyde

In chapter 5 of Missee Lee from Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series, Susan of the Swallows is shown using meta fuel to preheat a Primus stove.

Swallowdale

Swallowdale is the second book in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome.

The Picts and the Martyrs

The Picts and the Martyrs is the eleventh book in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books.

We Couldn't Leave Dinah

Later Caroline compares their gloomy attitude unfavorably to the adventurous spirits of two sets of children in popular books of the time, the Arthur Ransome children (of the Swallows and Amazons series of books) and M. E. Atkinson's Lockett family (from August Adventure, Mystery Manor etc.): “each child brooded upon those fascinating, incredible spirits of the nursery bookshelf, each the irresistible magnet of adventure”.

We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea

We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea is the seventh book in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books.

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