There's the Life and there's the Art...
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Intriguing, informative, surprising: The Secret life of Arthur Ransome, BBC2 TV
So it was not just Swallows and Amazons but also:
The Crisis in Russia
Russia in 1919
Six Weeks in Russia
7 contemporary reviews
Interesting, varied sources at Arthur Ransome Literary Pages
Contemporary reviews of Old Peter's Tales, written when he was in Russia.
A note in some forum or other on Ransome's politics, which gave another forum in The Scarlet Standard discussing some of the details from his MI5 files.
Arthur Ransome pictures including book covers and other extraneous.
The most fascinating facts were his talking to Lenin and meeting Trotsky's secretary, Evgenia Shelepin who he eventually brought out of russia and married, and his closeness to all the Bolshevik leaders who he saw cut down by the subsequent waves of terror from a safe distance.
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