The Secret Life of Books

Season 2 Episode 6: Swallows and Amazons

Former journalist and keen amateur sailor John Sergeant takes to the water in the wake of the plucky young heroes of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons, and learns how a globe-trotting foreign correspondent and acquaintance of Lenin and Trotsky came to perfect a new, more authentic kind of children's literature that featured real children doing real things in real places.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

2

Episodes:

12

Cast:

Quality:

HD

Duration:

30 min

First Air:

2014

Rating:

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