At a ball in an English port, the night before two ships sail for the Northwest Passage, Clara Burnham is haunted by a fear: the rejected suitor Richard Wardour has sworn vengeance on the unknown man she loves, and both men are sailing north. In the ice, starvation and jealousy close in together.
Collins’s prose version of the melodrama he staged with Dickens, a tense study of rivalry and redemption among the floes. Download the free EPUB.