In 1859 a party of the Hudson’s Bay Company sets out from Fort Reliance to found a new trading post far north on the polar coast, joined by a determined lady traveller and an astronomer obsessed with observing a solar eclipse. Winter, bears and hunger are only the first trials; the ground beneath the new fort hides a stranger danger.
Verne in his Arctic survival mode, rich in fur-trade detail and slow-building suspense. Download the free EPUB.