Strong Winds series allusion to Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series as well as other works, particularly R.L. Stevenson's "Treasure Island" and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Song of Hiawatha". Cassandra Jardine, reviewing for "The Daily Telegraph", wrote ""The Salt-Stained Book"... is not just a homage to the Swallows and Amazons stories. Donny and Anna, Jones's fictional characters, live in the contemporary world, escaping social workers, rather than pirates. There's far more emotion than in Ransome's books" but "they share the same confident, risk-taking spirit..." Amanda Craig, reviewing "The Salt-stained Book" for "The Times" "...wasn't sure about the historical framing device that gives the novel
Dahomey Amazons 7 discussed Dahomey Amazons and showed a photo. Referenced in Stieg Larsson's novel "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest" in the prelude to Part 4 "Rebooting System". The warriors are also mentioned in Patrick O'Brian's novel "The Commodore", book 17 of the Aubrey-Maturin series. The main character of Charles R. Saunders fantasy novel "Dossouye", an ahosi of Abomey, is closely modelled on the Dahomey ahosi. P. C. Wren's 1917 book of short stories "Stepsons of France" contains a story called ""Here are Ladies"", describing a series of clashes between troops of the Foreign Legion and the Dahomey Amazons. The