An Old Captivity

An adventure, kind of a swashbuckling tale of pilot daring a few years after WWI. Young pilot Donald Ross has little in common with the Oxford archaeologist who has employed him on an expedition to the Arctic—and still less with his beautiful but stubborn daughter, Alix. But once the three of them reach the treacherous shores of Greenland, in search of the ruins of early Viking settlements, their destinies are inextricably bound by the events that unfold there. "Keeps you pegging away, page after page, unwilling to put the book down." - New York Times. "Mr. Shute knows how to pick astonishing stories and how to keep them moving on non-stop tracks." - New Republic.