An Old Captivity (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) - Softcover

Shute, Nevil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1941147585 ISBN 13: 9781941147580

Publisher: Valancourt Books, 2015

Synopsis

"Keeps you pegging away, page after page, unwilling to put the book down." - "New York Times" "Mr. Shute knows how to pick astonishing stories and how to keep them moving on non-stop tracks." - "New Republic" "Excellent entertainment, varied and unusual." - Basil Davenport, "Saturday Review of Literature" Donald Ross is a young pilot, out of work and in desperate need of a job. So, despite the extreme danger involved, he jumps at the chance to fly Oxford professor Cyril Lockwood and his daughter Alix to the frozen wilds of Greenland to study Viking ruins. But the perils of the journey are nothing compared to what will happen when they arrive. Ignoring the warnings of the terrified natives, who believe the ruins are haunted, the explorers set up camp there and undergo a strange and mystical experience that will lead to a discovery that none of them could ever have foreseen . . . One of the best-loved novels by Nevil Shute, "An Old Captivity" (1940) blends romance and aeronautical adventure with a unique and compelling strain of fantasy into a page-turning story with an extraordinary conclusion. This edition, the first to be published in America in decades, features a new introduction by Rob Spence.

About this title

Review:

"Exhibits his talents at their provocative best" (New York Times)

"Nevil Shute's books always have a real hero...intensely romantic along with the realism, intensely real along with the romanticism, and peculiarly absorbing" (Sunday Times)

Book Description:

A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.

About this edition

• Publisher: Valancourt Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1941147585
• ISBN 13: 9781941147580
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 262