An Old Captivityby Nevil Shute | |
| Category: |
"Fiction - General" |
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| Pages: | 333 |
| Year of Publication: | 1940 |
| Date Read: | 04/06/1996 |
| Notes: | A competent young pilot finds a job opportunity with a expedition to Greenland. Eager as he is to win this appointment, he is frustrated, even enraged, by the attitude of the daughter of the expedition leader, a slightly absent minded Professor of Archaeology. Despite the efforts of the girl to sabotage his prospects, he is employed as the expedition's pilot. His elation is somewhat dampened when he learns that the girl is to be one of the expedition members 'in case Daddy gets ill'. A time translation occurs in the middle of the book, and the pilot finds himself, weary with the strain and responsibility of the expedition, dreaming of a long journey with a beautiful girl back to the Viking era, their Greenland colony and discovery of the American continent. |
| My Rating: | 7 |