In original dust sheet. Green cloth binding with gilt title on the spine.

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Pigeon Post is an English children’s adventure novel by Arthur Ransome, published by Jonathan Cape in 1936. It was the sixth of twelve books Ransome completed in the Swallows and Amazons series (1930 to 1947). He won the inaugural Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising it as the year’s best children’s book by a British subject.

This book is arguably the only Swallows and Amazons books that does not feature sailing (Winter Holiday does not feature sailing on water but does feature sailing of ice yachts). All the action takes place on and under the fells surrounding the Lake, as the characters attempt to discover gold in the Lake District hills.

Arthur Michell Ransome CBE (18 January 1884 – 3 June 1967) was an English author and journalist. He is best known for writing and illustrating the Swallows and Amazons series of children’s books about the school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. The books remain popular and Swallows and Amazons is the basis for a tourist industry around Windermere and Coniston Water, the two lakes Ransome adapted as his fictional North Country lake.

He also wrote about the literary life of London, and about Russia before, during, and after the revolutions of 1917. His connection with the leaders of the Revolution led to him providing information to the Secret Intelligence Service, while he was also suspected of being a Soviet spy by MI5.