978-1-56792-064-2 (David R. Godine, Publisher: paperback, 1996)
Preceded by
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea
Followed by
The Big Six
Secret Water is the eighth book in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books. It was published on 28 November 1939.[1]
This book is set in and around Hamford Water in Essex, close to the resort town of Walton-on-the-Naze.[2] It starts only a few days after We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea ends.
It brings the Swallows and the Amazons together and introduces a new group of characters, the Eels and the Mastodon. Ransome used to sail to Hamford Water, an area of tidal salt marshes and low-lying islands, in his yacht Nancy Blackett. He set the book here to offer his characters new opportunities to explore and make maps in a different landscape.
^Dudley Edwards, Owen (2007). British Children's Fiction in the Second World War. Edinburgh University Press. p.120.
^Hardyment, Christina (1984). Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint's trunk. London: Jonathan Cape. p. 186. ISBN 0224029894.
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