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By Nevil Shute

ISBN-10: 074514246X

ISBN-13: 9780745142463

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ISBN-13: 9780773671553

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younger pilot Donald Ross has little in universal with the Oxford archaeologist who has hired him on an excursion to the Arctic - and nonetheless much less together with his attractive yet obdurate daughter, Alix. yet as soon as the 3 of them achieve the treacherous seashores of Greenland, looking for the ruins of early Viking settlements, their destinies are inextricably sure by means of the occasions that spread there...

Nevil Shute used to be an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his complete identify in his engineering profession and Nevil Shute as his pen identify to guard his engineering profession from any capability adverse exposure in reference to his novels.

"An previous Captivity" was once Shute's first try out at re-incarnation as a plot.

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