Two young friends, Rob Carroll and Fred Warburton, answer the call of the far north in this rip-roaring Victorian adventure. Boarding the sturdy vessel Nautilus, they set sail for the remote outpost of York Factory, dreaming of glory and the untamed Arctic wilderness. But the frozen seas have other plans: towering icebergs, relentless storms, and encounters with polar bears test their courage at every turn. When disaster strikes and the boys find themselves stranded on a drifting iceberg, survival becomes their only goal. Along the way, they are thrust into the remarkable world of the Inuit people, learning ancient skills that might mean the difference between life and death. This is adventure fiction at its most exuberant, a tale of friendship forged in extremity and the raw, indifferent beauty of the far north.
