Winter Holiday

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‘Well,’ said Nancy, ‘You know what it’s like. Dark at teatime and sleeping indoors: nothing ever happens in the winter holidays.’Nothing – except a polar expedition, full of mountain rescues, blizzards, igloos, ice sailing and heroic work amidst the frozen wastes. For Dick and Dorothea, newcomers to the lake, meeting up with the Swallows and Amazons sweeps them into a wild adventure where they must prove their worth to the team

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Weight 0.256 kg
Dimensions 2.4 × 13 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

368

Publisher

Year Published

2001-9-6

Imprint

For Ages

9-11

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0099427176

About The Author

Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in l884 and went to school at Rugby. He was in Russia in l917, and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian. After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District with his Russian wife where, in l929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. And so began a writing career which has produced some of the real children's treasures of all time. In 1936 he won the first ever Carnegie Medal for his book, Pigeon Post.

One could hardly have a better story

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The best kind of adventure story

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