# Winter Holiday

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- Book: [Winter Holiday](https://www.bookquiver.com/arthur-ransome/winter-holiday) ([Winter Holiday.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/arthur-ransome/winter-holiday.md))
- Authors: [Arthur Ransome](https://www.bookquiver.com/arthur-ransome)
- Publisher: Vintage Children's Classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9957-365-4
- Pages: 512
- Published: 2012-09-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'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? By sledges of course! But when a blizzard blows up and there is a mix up about signals, the D’s disappear into the Arctic night. Disaster looms. Can the Swallows and Amazons save their friends? BACKSTORY: Crack the Swallows and Amazons' code and learn all about the real Arctic exploration that inspired this book.