The collector of lost things

By Jeremy Page

Subjects: Scientific expeditions, Naturalists, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, Arctic regions, fiction, Great auk

Description: In 1845, young researcher Eliot Saxby is paid to go on an Arctic expedition to find the remains of the by-now-extinct great auk, a large, flightless bird of mythical status, and is trapped on a hunting ship where the crew and passengers are not what they seem.