As you know, and others may not, there was a lot more to Arthur Ransome than writing an outstanding series of children's books and being an authority on fly fishing.
Playing chess with Lenin, marrying Trotsky's secretary, run ins with the forerunners of MI5 and the Special branch and being bailed out by the forerunners of MI6...
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As you know, and others may not, there was a lot more to Arthur Ransome than writing an outstanding series of children's books....
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Who said they were childrens books!... I love 'em..... read them to the kids... They love 'em too.... but I suspect not as much as I do /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif