Winter Holiday

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Arthur Ransome, Ransome Arthur
• Publisher: Red Fox
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 11
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.09.2001
• EAN: 9780099427179
• ISBN: 978-0-09-942717-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Swallows And Amazons; Swallows And Amazons
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; JUVENILE FICTION / Sports & Recreation / General, Sporting stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Sporting stories, pirates; classic childrens books; swallows and amazons