Pigeon post

The sixth title in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons sequence, this book was the inaugural recipient of the Carnegie Medal, an award given to the finest children's book by a writer who was a British subject. Unlike its predecessors, it leaves boats and sailing aside and turns to the mines and hills of the Lake District. Ransome's account of how homing pigeons are trained and used to carry messages between people is a central feature of the story.