Winter Holiday (Swallows and Amazons Series #4)

by Arthur Ransome

Overview

The fourth book in Arthur Ransome's classic series for children, winter holiday takes intrepid explorers John, Susan, Titty, and Roger Walker, and fearsome Amazon pirates Nancy and Peggy Blackett to the North Pole. Joined by budding novelist Dorothea Callum and her scientist brother Dick, the children plan an "Arctic" expedition. But unforeseen events separate the travelers and disaster nearly strikes in the exciting climax of their race to the Pole.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781567925005
Publisher:	David R. Godine, Publisher
Publication date:	12/18/2020
Series:	Swallows and Amazons Series , #4
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	516
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Arthur Ransome spent his childhood in England’s Lake District, and after a career in journalism that took him to Russia (where he married Trostsky’s secretary), China, and Egypt (interspersed with summers of cruising through the Baltic Sea and the canals of Europe), he retired to Coniston where he could practice his favorite pastimes of sailing and fishing and where he wrote the Swallows and Amazons series.

Table of Contents

I	Strangers	17
II	Signalling to Mars	29
III	Strangers No More	39
IV	The Igloo	48
V	Skating and the Alphabet	60
VI	Snow	76
VII	Arctic Voyage	88
VIII	Lost Leader	99
IX	Quarantine	110
X	Doing Without Nancy	119
XI	Cragfast Sheep	130
XII	Ambulance Work	143
XIII	To Spitzbergen by Ice	155
XIV	Nancy Takes a Hand	171
XV	Days in the Fram	182
XVI	Sailing Sledge	191
XVII	Nancy Sends a Picture	201
XVIII	The Fram at Night	211
XIX	The D.'s Take Charge	224
XX	Captain Nancy Gets Two Bits of News	236
XXI	Captain Flint Comes Home	242
XXII	Next Morning	256
XXIII	The Uses of an Uncle	264
XXIV	Flag at Beckfoot	275
XXV	Council in the Fram	291
XXVI	The North Pole	306
XXVII	To the Rescue	322
XXVIII	Arctic Night	332
XXIX	And Afterwards	344

Editorial Reviews

The story is the best kind of adventure story. . . Every step is possible, and everyone is transmuted into romance by deliberate purpose. Nothing that the children do is beyond the reach of a group provided that winter, a frozen lake and mumps connive to perfect adventure.”—Observer

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