Young Roswell Gardiner sails from Long Island in search of a seal island known only to a dying sailor, sent by the greedy Deacon Pratt. A rival schooner shadows him to the far south, where the crews are trapped in the Antarctic ice for a winter that tests their survival and Gardiner’s religious doubts.
A polar survival story with Cooper’s moral seriousness and some of his finest scenes of ice and sea. Download the free EPUB.