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YnysMon Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 Thanks for posting this. I shall look out for the biography. Current re-reading ‘The Coot Club’, partly because I started a re-read of The Swallows and Amazons series of books a few weeks ago, but also to whet my appetite for our first trip on Moonlight Shadow. Only a fortnight away! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poppy Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 17 hours ago, YnysMon said: Thanks for posting this. I shall look out for the biography. Current re-reading ‘The Coot Club’, partly because I started a re-read of The Swallows and Amazons series of books a few weeks ago, but also to whet my appetite for our first trip on Moonlight Shadow. Only a fortnight away! Don't forget 'The Big Six' as well. Loved Ransome's work since I first discovered him as a child. The sailing stuff is so accurate. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HEM Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 At the age of 9 or 10 in the 2nd-to-final year at junior school (this was in the 1960s) I chanced upon a well-worn hardback in the classroom library: Coot Club. I read this from cover-to-cover. This sparked an interest in sailing & the Norfolk Broads. Over the years I aquired the whole set (mostly as hardbacks) and still have them in the loft of our house now in Germany. Sadly these books don't fit into modern life - consider Pigeon Post: any kid nowadays would ask why they didn't use a cell phone. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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