Drowned Ammet. Diana Wynne Jones

      

      

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      First published in Great Britain by Macmillan London Ltd in 1977

      This edition published by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2016

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      Source ISBN: 9780008170653

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      Version: 2016-10-21

       Map of North and South Dalemark

       For my mother

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Map of North and South Dalemark

       Dedication

PART ONE: Free Holanders

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

PART TWO: The Sea Festival

Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       PART THREE: Wind’s Road

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       PART FOUR: The Holy Islands

       Chapter Seventeen

       Chapter Eighteen

       Chapter Nineteen

       Chapter Twenty

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       About the Author

       Books by Diana Wynne Jones

       About the Publisher

      

      PEOPLE MAY WONDER how Mitt came to join in the Holand Sea Festival, carrying a bomb, and what he thought he was doing. Mitt wondered himself by the end.

      Mitt was born the day of the Holand Sea Festival, and he was called Alhammitt after his father. Perhaps the first sound Mitt heard as he burst bawling into the world was his parents laughing about both these things.

      “Well, he took his time,” said Mitt’s father, “and chose his day all right. What does this make him? A man of straw, born to be drowned?”

      Milda,