Hammond Innes

This turns out to be a sequel to Isvik, which I thought was overlong and with a weak and unbelievable plot. As with Isvik, the characters are poorly drawn, and about the only interesting bit in the whole 421 pages are when our hero flies a Hercules cargo plane off an ice floe . It is Boys' Own Paper , read down the middle of the page stuff , which by and large would insult the intelligence of a 9 year old , and not worth wasting your time on, even in this peculiar post-coronavirus world we live in

This is one of Hammond Innes's weakest books . It is overlong, wordy, with unbelievable characters and an even more unbelievable plot , which is not even satisfactorily resolved at the end. Sadly, it is a reflection of the author's failing powers as he grew older

Red cedars, beautiful to behold, vital to the ecology, were protected by a curse. Now the face a danger more lethal.

An interesting book about sabotage of an oil exploration platform in the North Sea. It is rather padded out with an unnecessary diversion about a long lost Father suddenly turning up out of the Blue, and would have been better if perhaps 20% shorter

On 12 July 1776, Captain James Cook sailed from Plymouth in search of the North-West Passage. This is the story he might have written. The book is an imagined diary, showing a great seaman stretched to his limits.

Novel of an obsolete ocean freighter, a veteran of both World Wars, and of Gideon Patch, the ship's mate. Published serially as "The Mary Deare."

Story of the rescue attempt of a British whaling factory vessel locked in the ice in Antarctica.

Radio operator James Ferguson was seriously wounded in a bombing mission during World War II. A piece of shrapnel buried in his spine, Ferguson was paralyzed, his brain damaged, and his voice silenced forever. But he never gave up fighting. For the rest of his life, Ferguson devoted himself to ham radio, tapping out messages to strangers in Canada, a passion no one in his family understood. But when he dies without ever connecting to his son, Ian, his final message will change the boy’s life forever. Beside the radio, Ian finds his father’s last transmission: a distress call received from the isolated Labrador Peninsula, where the survivor of a lost expedition still cries out for rescue. The authorities dismiss the story as impossible, so Ian must journey to Labrador himself. In the endless frozen landscape, he will risk his life to save another—and prove his father right. To research The Land God Gave to Cain, author Hammond Innes trekked across rough country, hearing the stories of the men who risked their lives to tame the exotic land. Innes was a master at weaving research, landscape, and heart-pounding action into some of the greatest thrillers of all time.

286p. : 18cm