Winter Holiday: 4 (Swallows And Amazons, 4) - Softcover

Ransome, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099427176 ISBN 13: 9780099427179

Publisher: Red Fox, 2001

Synopsis

'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

About this title

About the Author

Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884 and went to school at Rugby. 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 with his Russian wife where, in 1929, 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.

Ransome died in 1967. He and his wife Evgenia lie buried in the churchyard of St Paul's Church, Rusland, in the southern Lake District.

Edition details

• Publisher: Red Fox
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099427176
• ISBN 13: 9780099427179
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368