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Book Number TAR13089
Title The Life of Arthur Ransome
Author(s) Author: Brogan, Hugh

Hugh [Denis Hugh Vercingetorix] Brogan (1936-)—British historian of the history of the United States, biographer, and the author of 'The Life of Arthur Ransome' Arthur Ransome's biography

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Paperback, Octavo (20-25 cm high). Xvi and 456 printed pages in publisher's original laminated card covers. Contains sixty black and white plates and seven text figures. ISBN 0712652493 [9780712652490]
Publisher(s) Pimlico, London, 2009

Jonathan Cape Limited—(Founded in 1919) British publisher founded in 1919 by Herbert Jonathan Cape (1879-1960), the son of a builder who started as an apprentice in the book trade. The company was initially named Jonathan Page and Company (Page was his mother's maiden name) and this changed to Jonathan Cape in 1921. Its most books and authors are probably: T. E. Lawrence, Arthur Ransome, the later Roald Dahl books, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, Fitzroy Maclean's Eastern Approaches, the James Bond series by Ian Fleming and more recently Anita Brookner, Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie. It is currently an imprint of Random House.

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This book gives adetailed account of Arthur Ransome's life, including his experiences in Russia and the background to the 'Swallows and Amazons' books.

There are thirteen chapters: 1—'Beginnings', 2—'An Education in Bohemia', 3—'Entanglements', 4—'Russia and War', 5—'Revolution', 6—'Bolsheviks', 7—'Lochinvar', 8—'Racundra', 9—'Pastoral', 10—'Swallows and Amazons', 11—'At Pin Mill', 12—'Ebb-Tide' and 13—'Journey to Rusland'.

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