Publisher's Synopsis
A moving, compelling tale of struggle for physical survival and spiritual redemption against the background of the most challenging environment on earth - Antarctica. James Vance Marshall unerringly recreates the uncompromising harshness but also the lyrical, irresistible beauty and vulnerability of the last paradise on earth' - Diana Preston, A First Rate Tragedy 'Suspense, struggle and survival...[an]admirable book' - Dallas Morning News 'Remarkable...one of the most original novels to be set during World War II' - Booklist (STARRED)'