Ransome Trivia

This page, proposed by a contributor to Tarboard, aims to bring together for us all to enjoy the nuggets of odd information that tend to be exchanged when two or more Ransomites are gathered together. Originally compiled by Tim Johns from many contributors, and subsequently maintained by Woll Newall. Please send contributions to All Things Ransome.

In some cases an individual note applies to more than one book. If so, the link will be shown under each book title to which it applies in the index, but will actually appear in only one (usually the earliest) of the sections of notes (which is also organized by book).

Swallows and Amazons
Down under
Tea Bay
Polly Unmasked!
Latitude and Longitude
Natives

Peter Duck
Pirate gold
Pelorus Jack

Swallowdale
Pirate gold
Already loaded
Howdy
Polly Unmasked!
Which foot, Roger?
The missing stretcher-bearer

Winter Holiday
Coot Club
AR Not a Railway Buff
Three million cheers
Dick's Fancy Dress

Pigeon Post
Howdy
Forgetful Dick

We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea
A prototype Bond?
Backwards Cover

Secret Water
The Sundial
Those Vanishing Sandwiches
Mangoes or Mangroves?
Where's that Dinghy?
Where's the totem?
Did he really make that?
A good sense of direction
The Big Six

Missee Lee
Captain Flint's SOS
Mangoes or Mangroves?
Come off it, Peggy!

The Picts & The Martyrs
Only on the dust jacket
Nancy or Ruth?
Forgetful Dick

Great Northern?
Who's the figure?
Which way's the sun?
Captain Flint's Amnesia

Swallows and Amazons

Peter Duck

Swallowdale

Winter Holiday

Coot Club

Pigeon Post

We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea

Secret Water

The Big Six

Missee Lee

The Picts and the Martyrs

Great Northern?


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