Mar. 28th, 2020

feather_ghyll: Boat with white sail on water (Sailboat adventure)
Coots in the North and other stories: Arthur Ransome (edited by Hugh Brogan) Jonathan Cope, 1988.

This is one for Ransome completists, but it’s also frustrating. It isn’t a collection of short stories, either. The most typical ‘stories’ here of the creator of the Swallows and Amazons are chapters or fragments from uncompleted books, one being the title story, featuring already familiar characters, the other about a brand new boy with a feeling for nature. Then there are short stories, some based on folk tales, the best told in a begrudging seadog’s voice.

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