Jules Verne plays the great literary game of the 19th century: reaching across four decades to complete Edgar Allan Poe's unfinished Antarctic nightmare. Poe left his protagonist stranded at the edge of an impossible white void; Verne dares to follow him in. Mr. Jeorling, a traveler stranded on the remote Kerguelen Islands, joins the schooner Halbrane and its enigmatic captain Len Guy on a quest to discover what became of Arthur Gordon Pym and the vanished crew of the Jane. What begins as a rescue mission becomes something far stranger as the ship penetrates the frozen limits of the world, encountering ice that behaves like no natural substance and a silence that swallows all sound. This is adventure stripped to its bones: a small ship, a haunted captain, and the southernmost waters on Earth. For readers who crave the strange literary kinship of one master continuing another's work, and for anyone drawn to the last white spaces on the map where mystery still lives.
