Returning to Wild Cat Island for their second summer holiday by the Lake, the Swallows find the Amazons and Captain Flint suffering from "native trouble". Expeditions to Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas had been much in the news while Ransome was writing the book. Ransome had often climbed Old Man of Coniston and in the book, this becomes the children's Kanchenjunga. Ransome was living in the Lake District and he drew on his experiences and memories of encounters over many years with the local farming community. It is the second book in the Swallows and Amazons series preceded by Swallows and Amazons and followed by Peter Duck. The book features Walker siblings (Swallows) and Blackett sisters (Amazons) camping in the hills and moorland country around a lake with Maria Turner, the Blacketts' Great Aunt, acting as an antagonist. Swallowdale is a children's adventure novel by English author Arthur Ransome and first published by Jonathan Cape in 1931. Godine, Publisher: paperback, 1986, 2010)
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