Winter Holiday

Winter Holiday

by Arthur Ransome (Author)

Synopsis

'You know what it's like. Dark at teatime and sleeping indoors: nothing ever happens in the winter holidays. Or so Nancy thinks. Then the lake ices over completely and the Swallows and Amazons, along with Dick and Dorothea - 'the D's' - plan a race to find the North Pole. How will they reach it if they can't sail? By sledges of course! But when a blizzard blows up and there is a mix up about signals, the D's disappear into the Arctic night. Disaster looms. Can the Swallows and Amazons save their friends?

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Edition: Second Impression
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 27 Sep 1984

ISBN 10: 0224606344
ISBN 13: 9780224606349
Children’s book age: 9-11 Years

Media Reviews
There is plenty of excitement, a little danger, a quality of thinking, planning and fun which is delightful and stimulating. TLS He makes a tale of adventure a handbook to adventure. Observer
Author Bio
Arthur Ransome was born in 1884. He was in Russia in 1917 and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian. After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District of England with his Russian wife where, in 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. Thus began a writing career that has produced some of the best children s literature of all time.