Well, "it looked the same on both sides" relative to the hoist. She had fastened it on the little wire flagstaff where the blue flag had been, so that it was ready When she had done there wasĪ fine white flag with a blue swallow flying across it, and it looked the same on both sides. Then she had sewn the edge of theīlue swallow all the way round into the place for it in the white flag. Put the pattern on the white flag, and cut out a place to fit it. Mother had drawn a swallow on a bit of paper, and Titty hadĬut one out of some blue serge that had once been part of a pair of knickerbockers. Titty had taken the little flagstaff up to the farm, and had cut a triangular flag out of some of There was also a 1963 TV series Swallows and Amazons ( IMDB), still in black and white, and a 1974 Warner Brothers movie ( IMDB).Ī clip from a trailer for the BBC series from 1962/1963 seriesĪrthur Ransome's description of how it was made: The book was originally published in 1930. Ruthless, so Ruth goes as Captain Nancy, and her sister is Mate Peggy. Their uncle Jim, alias Captain Flint, says that pirates are The girls see themselves as pirates and call themselves Lake District (which they simply call the Sea) they meet up with the Blackett the book was written in a more innocent age.)Īs sailors the children refer to each other as Captain John, Mate Susan,Īble Seaman Titty and the Boy Roger. (Titty is presumably a nickname for Titania The Swallows of the title are the siblings John, Susan, Titty and Roger, Swallows and Amazons is a children's classic by Arthur Ransome. Combinations of Swallows and Amazons pennants.Keywords: swallows and amazons | ransome (arthur) | swallow | swallows | amazons | siam | elephant | jolly roger | Last modified: by peter hans van den muijzenberg This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website Swallows and Amazons (Series of Novels)
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