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Winter Holiday
Book • 1933
Published in 1933, 'Winter Holiday' is the fourth novel in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series.
Unlike the previous summer-set adventures, this story takes place during winter holidays on a frozen lake in the English Lake District.
The familiar characters—the Walker siblings (John, Susan, Titty, and Roger) and the Blackett girls (Nancy and Peggy)—are joined by new characters, Dick and Dorothea Callum, known as the D’s.
Together, they imagine and prepare for an Arctic expedition to the North Pole, inspired by real polar explorers like Fridtjof Nansen.
The story features activities such as ice skating, sledging, and signaling with semaphore and Morse code, and it captures the children's imaginative play amid winter conditions, with challenges including a blizzard and the absence of their usual leader due to mumps.
Unlike the previous summer-set adventures, this story takes place during winter holidays on a frozen lake in the English Lake District.
The familiar characters—the Walker siblings (John, Susan, Titty, and Roger) and the Blackett girls (Nancy and Peggy)—are joined by new characters, Dick and Dorothea Callum, known as the D’s.
Together, they imagine and prepare for an Arctic expedition to the North Pole, inspired by real polar explorers like Fridtjof Nansen.
The story features activities such as ice skating, sledging, and signaling with semaphore and Morse code, and it captures the children's imaginative play amid winter conditions, with challenges including a blizzard and the absence of their usual leader due to mumps.
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