Isvik Author:Hammond Innes "Mast gone, of course. Just the stumps, all coated in ice. All I could see was the outline. An old wooden ship. I'm certain... Three masts and what look like gun ports, the deck of a clear stretch of ice bounded by battered balwarks, and aft of the wheel..." — "I turned to the second page, the writing su... more »ddenly very shaky, almost illegible, as though the aircraft had hit turbulence... a figure. The helmsman, frozen to the wheel. That's what it look like. The ghost of a man, and the ghost of a ship, all draped and white, snow or ice, only the outline showing. And then it was gone, my eyes blinking in the ice glare. I almost didn't believe what I had seen, but this is what it looked like... And on the third page, he had drawn a rough sketch of the vessel."
These notes are found on the body of a glaciologist whose plane has gone down in the South Atlantic. When narrator and wood preservation specialist Peter Kettil first reads them, they are only a curiosity, piquing his professional interest. But they launched a recovery expedition that will eventually sweep him across the world and into the lives of the glaciologist's mysterious Argentine widow, the Disappeareds of Argentina, and the enigmatic and magnetic Scotsman Iain Ward. Kittil becomes inexorably tied to the mission as it moves from England through South America, and finally, aboard the recovery ship Isvik, down to the southern ice and most macabre horrific climax ever produced by Master storyteller Hammond Innes.« less
ISBN-13: 9780312070038 ISBN-10: 0312070039 Publication Date: 3/1992 Pages:319 Edition:1st U.S. ed Rating: