**_The third book in the popular Lane Winslow mystery series by an author the_ Globe and Mail _has called a "writer to watch."_** It's early spring of 1947 in idyllic King's Cove, and the Hughes ladies, _mère et filles_ , are gardening and sorting through the jars of food that have been put up for
An Old Captivity
β Scribed by Nevil Shute
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage International
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 159 KB
- Edition
- 1st Vitange International ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1299005675
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β¦ Synopsis
Young pilot Donald Ross has little in common with the Oxford don who has employed him on an expedition to the Arctic and still lives with his beautiful but stubborn daughter, Alix. Once the three of them reach the treacherous shores of Greenland their destinies are bound by the events that unfold.
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