THE LOST ONES

by Ian Cameron ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 25, 1968

Shades of Arctic Night! Real, old time adventure! As Keith Rogers, narrator tries to help Captain Anthony Molver find his son Donald, a helicopter pilot who had disappeared a year ago after setting out to search for ""the graveyard of the whales"" somewhere in the Arctic wastes. According to the local legend, the ""lost ones"" are located somewhere within the mouth of the Eskimo hell. Naturally everything is triple taboo; plus the place is supposedly guarded by a strange tribe"" of yellow-haired men. All of this is terribly intimidating but there is an added incentive for a search: the graveyard is chock full of the very precious ambergris, spawn of sperm whales, the basic fixative for perfume. Well there are blizzards, avalanches, whirlpools, volcanoes and killer whales to overcome not to mention the last of the Vikings and Freja, a Nordic goddess Those who aren't mythanthropic will probably love it.

Pub Date: March 25, 1968

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Morrow

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1968

Categories: FICTION