- Mystery and detective stories, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Detective and mystery stories
For her birthday, Vicky receives the gift of a trip to the Antarctic, where her friend Adam Eddington is working as a marine biologist. But as Vicky meets her fellow travelers, it quickly becomes clear that some of them are not what they seem. Vicki's trip into adventure becomes a journey into icy danger.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Classical in form, earnest, grave and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Madeleine L'Engle
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 296
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Square Fish
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780440219507
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 2 have read it and 10 want to.
“How did I get to be on an iceberg in Antarctic waters in January, which is summer-but even summer is cold in that land of unremitting ice.”
American writer
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
The Christmas Pig 202187% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
"E" is for evidence 198886% alikeBoth classical in form, grave, earnest.
The Calder game 200886% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
Brian's Hunt 200385% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
Wright 3 200684% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
Stone Fox 197984% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
Raven's Gate 200584% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
Dragons in the waters 197683% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
Someone to Watch Over Me 198785% alikeFilm · Both classical in form, grave, earnest.
Chasing Mavericks 201282% alikeFilm · Both classical in form, earnest, grave.