The Picts and the Martyrs or, Not welcome at all

By Arthur Michell Ransome

Subjects: Boats and boating, fiction, Zoologists, Scientists, biography, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Children's stories, Aunts, Fiction, Children's fiction, Amazons (Fictitious characters : Ransome), Swallows (Fictitious characters), Corfu island (greece), description and travel, Juvenile fiction, Sailing, Natural history, greece, corfu island

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.