Coots in the North & other stories [Import] [Hardcover]

Arthur Ransome (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape; First Edition edition (1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0224026054
• ISBN-13: 978-0224026055
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,012,607 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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.



Photography (c) Arthur Ransome's Literary Executors & courtesy of the Brotherton Collection, Leeds University Library

Customer Reviews

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17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great insight into what might have been, December 6, 1996

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This review is from: Coots in the North & other stories (Hardcover)

Only a 9 because, alas the work is unfinished. The Death and Glory's stow away in a lorry carrying a motor cruiser to the north. Awaiting them is the D's. They get this far and out on the lake, but AR never got any farther.
Still wonderful to read and imagain

4.0 out of 5 stars Coots in the North, September 9, 2008

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Clifford J. Klinert - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coots in the North (Red Fox Older Fiction) (Paperback)

This book is an important reference for Arthur Ransome readers. It contains an introduction and very useful background information about Ransome and his books. A few of Ransome's short stories (some previously published), and just a few chapters of what would have been Ransome's last book are patched together from old typescripts, rough notes and sketches.

The book "Coots in the North" has a good beginning, a fairly rough (in my opinion) ending, and nothing in the middle. I can't see how this could have been made into a book. Ransome left an Author's Note about how he came to write "Swallows and Amazons" that the book almost wrote itself. That was not the case here.

Cliff