Title: The Picts and the Martyrs or, Not welcome at all
First published: 1943
Description: This is the penultimate book in the Swallows and Amazons series. Dick and Dorothea come to spend part of the summer vacation with the Amazons, but Great Aunt Maria's visit means they have to camp out in the woods. Fine sailing descriptions, interesting accounts of rustic housekeeping, some mineral assaying descriptions.
Subjects: Children's stories, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Children's fiction, Amazons (Fictitious characters : Ransome), Juvenile fiction, Swallows (Fictitious characters), Aunts, Sailing, Fiction, Boats and boating, fiction, Natural history, greece, corfu island, Zoologists, Corfu island (greece), description and travel, Scientists, biography
Places: Lakes District
Time periods: 1940