Swallows and Amazons (1974 film) the children, after which Uncle Jim is tried for his crimes and forced to walk the plank on his own houseboat. They agree at the post-battle feast to be friends forever. The film was shot on location in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria during the summer of 1973. Actual locations were used to recreate the fictional lake in Arthur Ransome's novel. In April 2010, the boat named "Swallow" in the film was bought by a group of enthusiasts who want to restore it to sailing condition. EMI distributed the film in the UK in 1974. The film has
Amazons they are also called "Antianeirai" (, singular , "") ("against men") and Aeschylus, in his work "Prometheus Bound", used "styganor" () ("those who loathe all men"). Herodotus and Strabo placed them on the banks of the Thermodon and Themiscyra. Herodotus also mentions that some Amazons lived at Scythia because after the Greeks defeated the Amazons in battle, they sailed away carrying in three ships as many Amazons as they had been able to take alive, but out at sea the Amazons attacked the crews and killed them, then these Amazons landed at Scythian lands. Strabo writes that the original home