He eventually settled in England's Lake District with his second wife. While in Russia, he also covered the Russian Revolution in 1917. During World War I, he became a reporter for the Daily News and covered the war on the Eastern Front. In 1916, he published Old Peter's Russian Tales, a collection of 21 folktales. He wrote his first book, Bohemia in London, in 1907 and went to study folklore in Russia in 1913. He worked for a London publisher and then for the Manchester Guardian newspaper.
He studied chemistry for one year at Yorkshire College before dropping out to become a writer. As a child, he spent many vacations sailing, camping, and exploring the countryside in England's Lake Country.
Children's author Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds, England on January 18, 1884.
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