Roger Wardale's 40-year search uncovers the secret locations featured in Arthur Ransome's original "Swallows & Amazons" adventures. Containing fully revised text and rare photographs to satisfy even the most avid reader of "Swallows & Amazons", this book aims to give two-fold pleasure - enjoy the original stories, and...discover the farms, rivers, islands, towns and hills that formed their backdrop. It is abundantly illustrated with maps, sketches and more than fifty photographs to help identify the secret locations featured in the ever-popular series of books. Numerous quotations from Arthur Ransome support both text and photographs.