Synopsis
"It's the last time, son. I promise. Then it'll be you and me together - a place of our own. Just one more trip to Greenland." Left behind in Whitby with his hateful uncle, Joshua waits. After a year there is no news, only rumour. Is his father's ship stuck fast in the ice or battered to smithereens in a storm? Joshua takes the one thing that links him to his father, the Scoresby compass, and stows away on the Aurora, another whaler boat bound for the Arctic. On board he discovers an extraordinary gift - but also makes a terrible enemy...
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Beautifully written.... ideal for long dark winter nights......Even in summer the blizzards made me shiver -- Bookseller
Epic...... of colossal scope..... bursting with life, hope and discovery -- Scotsman
For those who like good old-fashioned tales of courage and adventure...... compellinglly described -- Observer
Written in the spirit of the traditional adventure story...... not just a breasth but a gale of fresh air -- Independent
From the Author
Compass Murphy is one of three books in The Running Tide, a loosely connected set of stand-alone stories which can be read in any order. It is set at the height of the Greenland whaling trade in the mid 1800s, and the action takes place in Whitby, Orkney, and frozen Arctic waters. The central characters, Joshua, a Whitby boy, and Simva, an Inuit girl, return as adults in the next book, The Ship Thief, which is set in Gold-Rush Alaska, and young men in that story return again in the third book, Hunting Gumnor, which is set in the kinder coastal waters of Britain. A love for the sea, and the ships which sail on it, runs through all the stories, which tell of storms and shipwreck, mutiny and curses, whale hunts and bear attacks, all seen through the eyes of the children at their centre.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 341 pages. Small stain on text corner. Text lightly tanned. Joshua's father leaves for a whaling expedition to the Arctic, hoping to make enough money to buy a farm. After a year there is no news, only rumour. Is his father's ship stuck fast in the ice or sunk? Joshua decides to find out and stow. Seller Inventory # 1432ab
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 341 pages. Cover worn. ex-library book, Joshua's father leaves for a whaling expedition to the Arctic, hoping to make enough money to buy a farm. After a year there is no news, only rumour. Is his father's ship stuck fast in the ice or sunk? Joshua decides to find out and stow. Seller Inventory # 2370u
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