Title: Pigeon post
First published: 1936
Description: Pigeon Post is the 6th in the Swallows and Amazons series, and was the first winner of the Carnegie Medal, for the best children's book written by a British subject. The only book in the series that does not feature sailing, it's about mining on the Fells of the Lake district. Excellent descriptions of the use of homing pigeons to carry messages.
Subjects: Gold mines and mining, Homing pigeons, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Pigeons, fiction, Swallows (Fictitious characters), Amazons (Fictitious characters : Ransome), Adventure stories, Psychopathology, Psychoanalysis, Hypnosis, Therapeutic use
Places: Lake District, Fells
Time periods: 1935
LC classification: PZ7.R175 Pi