The Ice Pilot

Rain lays a fine net over San Francisco, and a whaler’s song spills from a smoky tavern below Telegraph Hill. Horace Stirling, the Ice Pilot, has heard the Arctic calling—and tonight he means to answer.

In the early twentieth century, after a failed attempt at chicken farming, Stirling has little money and no wish to stay ashore. Rumour in the Blubber Room promises a ship bound for the ice, but its sailors watch one another closely, and Stirling senses trouble before the lamps go out and chaos erupts. Soon he is caught in a dangerous business with strangers, a fog-covered bay, and a boat taking on water. The Pole Star waits somewhere beyond the harbor, bound for a country few have seen. What is Stirling sailing into—and what do his new companions want from him?

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