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Secret Water Arthur Ransome 9780099589365 Books

I first read this book when I was in my early teens, many years ago! I enjoyed reading it again; however I’m only rating this
Kindle version three stars because it does not include any map! I solved the problem by having a library copy with small print next to me also.


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Secret Water Arthur Ransome 9780099589365 Books Reviews

After the excitement of "We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea", Arthur Ransome's eighth story in the Swallows and s series returns to more comfortable and comforting territory. Set very shortly after the children's ordeal at sea in the previous volume, "Secret Water" finds the Walker children "marooned" on an island in the tidal area of Hamford Water, Essex. Here they spend a week or so, camping and surveying the low-lying islands, tortuous channels and tidal flats, whilst also having to deal with the quandary of whether to make friends with (or wage war upon) the local savage tribesmen. Once, of course, the small matter of one of their number being taken for a human sacrifice has been resolved!
This story is something of an attempt to return to the simple style of tale that worked so well with both "Swallows and s" and "Swallowdale" a tale of children building a world of their own creation and at the same time learning to deal successfully with the real world in which they find themselves. After some of the more exciting later volumes in the S&A series, though, some readers may find the results just a little flat.
As always, though, Ransome weaves his tale through the deftest handling of prose and most adults at least should find this tale as charming as any the others in the series. It is nice, too, to see that the young Bridget is now able to start participating in the activities of her siblings.
Set immediately following the events of "We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea," this volume in the Swallows & s series finds the Walkers once again sunk in gloom as their father, Cdr. Walker, has been denied his hoped-for leave, which will apparently prevent them from going on their planned family cruise to a region of marshes and islands suggested by their friend Jim Brading. Then Daddy gets his Great Idea he and Mother will "maroon" the children (including Ship's Baby Bridget and Ship's Kitten Sinbad) with camping gear and provisions while they go up to London, and the "shipwrecked sailors" will explore and chart the unknown regions in which they've found themselves. The large island that will serve as their headquarters is surrounded by mud flats at low tide and has a farm (promptly christened a "native kraal" by Titty) near the middle of it, and with a small sailing boat of their own, the "Wizard," the self-sufficient and experienced Walkers anticipate no real trouble.

They've scarcely set up camp when they meet a local boy whom they dub "the Mastodon" (for the queer round tracks he leaves while walking with his "splatchers," a kind of snowshoe for use in mud) and learn that he's anticipating the arrival of his "tribe," the Eels, who camp on a nearby island every year for a spell of pretend savagery. (Why they're so late in coming--it's almost the end of the summer holidays--is never properly explained.) Then, to their astonishment and delight, the s, Nancy and Peggy Blackett, join them with another small boat, "Firefly," and Nancy, as always, starts livening things up by suggesting that the explorers become blood members of the tribe. The Mastodon is willing he thinks Bridget would make a much better human sacrifice (the centerpiece of the annual corroborree) than the usual one, skinny Daisy. Then the Eels hear of the explorers' presence and send word to him to get rid of them any way he can, and at first it looks as if the whole expedition will be ruined. But this time it's Bridget, though only four, who saves the day when she gets "captured" by the Eels and explains the situation to them. Immediate friendship results, and the mapmaking and corroborree are both resounding successes.

As always, Ransome draws his characters and setting with skill and avoids "talking down" to his readers. Titty and Roger, the Able-Seamen, though still young enough to get in trouble, are clearly growing and maturing through their past experiences, as is shown in one episode where they're stranded on the mudflats with the tide coming in. Suspense and tension abound almost to the very last page, as the s in "Firefly" and the AB's in "Wizard," having resolved to complete the blank map left by Cdr. Walker, race the returning "Goblin" to the explorers' camp. The harum-scarum Blacketts, who always improve any book they appear in, add their special brand of imagination, and while it still isn't quite as good as the adventures set in the Lake Country, this volume in the series is a definite keeper.
The Swallows are safely home after their adventure in We Didn't Mean to go to Sea, and plans are afoot to spend precious time with Father & Mother, camping & mapping a coastal island & inland sea. Suddenly, Father must go to work immediately, and all plans are scuppered. Until the despondent Swallows notice that Father is talking very happily to Mother, and has a smile on his face. After some very rapid packing up, the Swallows, now a party of five, including youngest sister Bridget as one of the crew, are dropped on the island, left with a small sailing dinghy, a blank map with rough outlines, and enough food to get through a day or two. This would make an enjoyable enough tale, but Ransome stirs things up with a Mastadon (a human one), three Savages (also humans) and a surprise arrival! Mapping the inland sea and its islands, the original plan for the Swallows, is fitted in around walking to town over a tidal causeway, visiting the Mastadon for dinner, meeting the Savages, and a huge Corroboree!
Entertaining, exciting, well written, quality literature. Very much enjoyed by my 9 year old homeschooler. She is collecting all his books.
Love swallows and s!
Gift for boy
This is a lovely book for any person especially young children who can lose themselves in this series of fine books.
I read these books as a child and loved them all, I read them to my children who also loved the books.
I can recommend these books to everyone.
I first read this book when I was in my early teens, many years ago! I enjoyed reading it again; however I’m only rating this
version three stars because it does not include any map! I solved the problem by having a library copy with small print next to me also.