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The Autobiography
Hardcover
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368 pages
Published
December 27th 1987
by Jonathan Cape
(first published September 9th 1976)
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This is an absorbing book, refreshingly honest and self-effacing, depicting Arthur Ransome's early life. His experiences as a foreign correspondent during the first world war are especially interesting. Every student of Russian history should read Ransome's eye-witness account of the start of the Russian Revolution before coming to any conclusions.
And the reader is taken along the background path to his writing of the Swallows and Amazons books, born of his great love of the Lake District.
And the reader is taken along the background path to his writing of the Swallows and Amazons books, born of his great love of the Lake District.
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Arthur Michell Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884 and educated in Windermere and Rugby. His family spent their summers at Nibthwaite, to the south of Coniston Water.
In 1902, Ransome abandoned a chemistry degree to become a publisher's office boy in London. He used this precarious existence to practise writing, producing several minor works before Bohemia in London (1907), a study of London's artist ...more
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In 1902, Ransome abandoned a chemistry degree to become a publisher's office boy in London. He used this precarious existence to practise writing, producing several minor works before Bohemia in London (1907), a study of London's artist ...more
