ABOUT THE BOOK

The Depression has hit New York hard. Disgraced seaman Will Boden is barely scraping by on the waterfront when he finds himself lured into the slippery world of industrial tycoon and big-game hunter Carl Schenck by the promise of a return to the sea. Against all his instincts about men and ships, Boden joins Schenck's crew of luckless misfits aboard the 'Lodestar', a woefully ill-suited luxury yacht bound for a safari cruise to the high Arctic.

Across unforgiving polar seas and the savage tundra, the battle of wills between Boden and Schenck widens into a series of disasters that propels them and the ship's crew inexorably toward tragedy.

Peter Nichols, author of the critically acclaimed memoir 'Sea Change', lives in New York City.