Delivery voyage
Arthur Ransome liked to set his stories in locations he knew and loved. Between 1930 and 1936 he published four books (Swallows and Amazons, Swallowdale, Winter Holiday and Pigeon Post) set in the Lakes, where he then lived. Another (Coot Club) was set on the Norfolk Broads, where he would occasionally hire a yacht. In that book the locations are entirely real – not rearranged and disguised as in the Lakes books. He’d also written a fantastical yarn (Peter Duck) set in the Caribbean – though it began, prosaically, in Lowestoft.
