Winter Holiday

By Arthur Ransome

$10.00

The third story in the series that is set in the English Lakeland but in a winter resembling 1929 or so when the real Windermere froze over. We meet Dick and Dorothea Callum who of course encounter the Walker children and the Blackett sisters, the crews of the Swallow and the Amazon. The only sailing that get done is done by Dick and Dorothea on a sailing sled down the lake in a blizzard. Illustrations by Ransome except the cover. Includes the 1958 author’s note on the origin of the series.

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Good. First published by Jonathan Cape 1933, first Puffin Books 1960, first Red Fox 1993.

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