Winter holiday
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Winter holiday
AUTHOR:
Ransome, Arthur, 1884-1967
ISBN:
9780099573654
PUBLICATION_INFO:
London : Vintage Classic, 2012
PHYSICAL_DESC:
484 p. : ill., map ; 19 cm
SERIES:
Vintage classics
SERIES_TITLE:
Vintage classics
GENERAL_NOTE:
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1940.
ABSTRACT:
'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?
SUBJECT:
| Outdoor life -- Juvenile fiction |
| Vacations -- Juvenile fiction |
| Winter -- Juvenile fiction |
BIBSUMMARY:
'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?