Winter Holiday. Arthur Ransome

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СКАЧАТЬ XVI Sailing Sledge XVII Nancy Sends a Picture XVIII The Fram at Night XIX The D.’s Take Charge XX Captain Nancy Gets Two Bits of News XXI Captain Flint Comes Home XXII Next Morning XXIII The Uses of an Uncle XXIV Flag at Beckfoot XXV Council in the Fram XXVI The North Pole XXVII To the Rescue XXVIII Arctic Night XXIX And Afterwards

      ILLUSTRATIONS

       Signal Station and Observatory

       “Is It For Us?”

       The Martians in Sight

       The Igloo

       Signals

      Pages from Dick’s Pocket-Book: –

       (1) Private Code

       (2) Semaphore Code

       (3) Scientific Notes

       The Igloo in Snow

       Peggy in the Cat Ice

       Captain Nancy Gives Instructions

       Dog Team in High Greenland

       “Lower Away”

       A Noise of Sawing and Hammering

       “The Houseboat’s Frozen In”

       Airing the Fram

       “Shove Your Port Legs Down – Hard!”

       Nancy’s Question

       The Fram in the Moonlight

       Peggy’s Answer

       “Tall Dutchman”

       Eskimo Settlements in the Sub-Arctic (map)

       “It’s Moving!”

       Capsized and Dismasted

       Through the Snow

       At the Pole

       Message at Cache Island

       Nancy Reaching the Pole

      AUTHOR’S NOTE

      I have often been asked how I came to write Swallows and Amazons. The answer is that it had its beginning long, long ago when, as children, my brother, my sisters and I spent most of our holidays on a farm at the south end of Coniston. We played in or on the lake or on the hills above it, finding friends in the farmers and shepherds and charcoal-burners СКАЧАТЬ