Coot Club Coot Club Coot Club is the fifth book of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, published in 1934. The book sees Dick and Dorothea Callum visiting the Norfolk Broads during the Easter holidays, eager to learn to sail and thus impress the Swallows and Amazons when they return to the Lake District later that year. Along with a cast of new characters, Dick and Dorothea explore the North and South Broads and become 'able seamen'. The Callum children spend their Easter holidays on The Broads with a family friend, Mrs Barrable, who is staying on a small
Swallows and Amazons series Many places in the books can be identified with real locations in the area, though Ransome has modified the real location in producing his fictional setting. Generally, the geography of the lake resembles Windermere (though Wild Cat Island has a number of important elements from Peel Island on Coniston Water) while the fells and hills surrounding it more closely resemble the area around Coniston. "Coot Club" and "The Big Six" are set in an accurate representation of the Norfolk Broads, particularly the small village of Horning and its surrounding rivers and broads. "Coots in the North" also begins in the