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Ice Drift
by Theodore Taylor
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It's 1868, and two Inuit brothers, Alika and younger Sulu, are hunting on an ice floe precariously connected to Ellesmere Island, in cold, vast Greenland. After spending hours hunkered down at a seal hole, waiting for their prey, they are suddenly set adrift as the air is filled with a sickening sound of the floe splintering from the island. This had befallen other villagers, and none ever returned home. For six long months, their treacherous path down the Greenland Strait exposes the boys to savage polar bears, bitter cold, and starvation. A dearly hoped for rescue comes in the form of a hunter on Baffin Island, hundreds of miles to the south.
Available editions of Ice Drift
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9780152055509,
Paperback,
Sandpiper,
2006
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9781417734412,
Prebinding,
Bt Bound,
2006
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9780152050818,
Hardcover,
Harcourt Childrens Books,
2004
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Publisher Notes
In the year of 1868, two brothers are set adrift on the cold sea after a block of ice suddenly cracks and they must endure incredible physical hardships, near-death experiences with wild animals, and emotional exhaustion while waiting, with limited hope, for help to arrive.
Media Reviews
"[F]ans...will enjoy both the intense survival detail and the gratifying conclusion."
Synopses
Two Inuit brothers must fend for themselves while stranded on an ice floe that is adrift in the Greenland Strait.
First Line
Alika, hand on his harpoon, his unaaq, ready for an instant kill, had been at the seal hole, the aglus, for three hours.
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