“Only, the beastly Arctic won't freeze”
Arthur Ransome book Winter Holiday
Winter Holiday (Chapter 3), 1933
Quotes from bookWinter Holiday
Winter Holiday is the fourth novel of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books. It was published in 1933. In this story, the third set of major characters in the series, the Ds — Dick and Dorothea Callum—are introduced. The series' usual emphasis on boats and sailing is largely absent, as the story is set in the winter. Instead, the children's activities focus on ice skating, signalling with semaphore and Morse code, and sledging.
“Softly, at first, as if it hardly meant it, the snow began to fall.”
Arthur Ransome book Winter Holiday
Winter Holiday (Chapter 5), 1933
