Pigeon Post Pigeon Post Pigeon Post is an English children's adventure novel by Arthur Ransome, published by Jonathan Cape in 1936. It was the sixth of twelve books Ransome completed in the Swallows and Amazons series (1930 to 1947). He won the inaugural Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising it as the year's best children's book by a British subject. This book is one of the few Swallows and Amazons books that does not feature sailing. All the action takes place on and under the fells surrounding the Lake, as the characters attempt to discover gold in the Lake District hills.
Swallows and Amazons series are set in Suffolk and Essex around the River Orwell, though one involves a trip across the North Sea to Holland. Two books, "Peter Duck" and "Missee Lee", and possibly also "Great Northern?", are metafictional, being fictional stories of the protagonists' voyages to exotic lands, as imagined by the fictional protagonists. The crew of the "Swallow" are siblings John, Susan, Titty, and Roger Walker. John, the oldest, is the captain and usually in charge. Susan is first mate, in charge of stores, cooking, and the general well-being of the crew. She sometimes acts as a surrogate mother. Titty, the "able