"Keeps you pegging away, page after page, unwilling to put the book down." - New York Times "Mr. Shute knows how to pick astonishing stories and how to keep them moving on non-stop tracks." - New Republic "Excellent entertainment, varied and unusual."...
An Old Captivity is a novel written by Nevil Shute, first published in 1940. The story follows the adventures of a young English pilot named Donald Ross, who is hired by an American millionaire to search for a lost Viking settlement in the Arctic. Ross is joined on his expedition...