Across Frozen Seas
โ Scribed by Wilson, John
- Publisher
- Dundurn;Beach Holme Pub
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 485 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Short-listed for the 1998 Sheila A. Egoff Award for Children's Literature and Geoffrey Bilson Award
In his third young adult title, John Wilson takes on the rich territory of the 1845 Franklin expedition. Cabin boy David Young travels aboard the ill-fated vessel the HMS Erebus from London, England, en route to Canada's frozen and uncharted north, and his adventures comes to a modern-day Dave Young in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, in a series of dreams.
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