Arthur Mitchell Ransome was a British author and journalist, the
son of a Professor of History at Leeds College. He was best known
for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books,
which tell of school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the
Lake District and the Norfolk Broads areas of England. The books
remain popular to the point that they provide a basis of a tourist
industry around Windermere and Coniston Water -- the two lakes that
Ransome used as the basis for his fictional North Country lake. He
studied chemistry, but quit college to take low-paying jobs as an
office assistant in a publishing company and as editor of a failing
magazine while writing and becoming a member of the literary scene
of London.
In 1914, he covered the Eastern Front in World War I for the
radical newspaper, the "Daily News," He also covered the Bolshevik
Revolution, and became close to Vladamir Lenin and Leon
Trotsky.
"Old Peter's Russian Tales" is a collection of twenty-one
Russian folktales drawn from his time in Russia. The tales include
"Baba Yaga," the story of the famous witch who lived in a house
that walked on chicken feet.
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