Roger Wardale Knihy

The inside story of the two Swallows and Amazons books set on the Norfolk Broads.

Illustrated with maps, sketches and more than fifty photographs, this book uncovers the secret locations featured in Arthur Ransome's original Swallows & Amazons adventures. It contains numerous quotations from Arthur Ransome, which support both text and photographs.

Recundra -- Nancy Blackett -- Lottie Blossom -- Peter Duck -- Selina King -- Swallow--Cover.

First published in 1937, this book supplies a history of the living growth of the English language from Old English to the medieval period. It offers an in-depth study of the growth of vocabulary through literature and social interaction, bringing out the fact that it is chiefly words that foreign influence has affected -- leaving sentence structure almost unaltered. Isolative and combinative changes in phonology, the accidence of nouns and plurals, pronouns and adverbs, and verbs are also examined in detail, along with a general overview of the features Middle English and a brief outline of each dialect's most striking characteristics.