An Old Captivity by Shute, Nevil - 1965

London: Pan Books. Very Good; Light reading and cover creases, some edge and shelf wear, tiny . closed tears to rear endpaper. Light foxing to edges of reading block. ; . Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover artwork by George Sharp.. 1965. Reprint. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Fourteenth Printing; 288 pages; In the icy desolation of Greenland, an elderly Oxford don and his daughter listen to the words spoken as if in a dream by a young flyer who holds their survival in his hands. "This is a good country, I will ask Leif to let us stay here when the longship goes back..." Words that echo across the centuries, back to the years of the longships and the Norsemen who ventured here a thousand years before. ; 0330104195 .