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July 12th 1776. Captain James Cook sails from Plymouth in the Resolution in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. It is his third amazing voyage of discovery and this is the story he might have written. Hammond Innes has created a brilliantly imagined diary, showing a great man stretched to his limits. It is a voyage that will sweep Captain Cook and his crew from the icy wasteland of the Arctic, to the tropical waters of Hawaii.

North Star is an old rig, too old for the appalling weather in the North Sea. The massive environmental damage its destruction could cause would be unthinkable. Why would anyone think of sabotaging it?

When a British radio operator suddenly dies after he intercepts a mysterious SOS from the leader of an expedition into Canada’s northern frontier, his son Ian suspects the two events are connected. To find the truth, Ian makes a daring journey to the frontier where he learns a shocking secret that involves three generations of his family.

A newspaper article and an almost-forgotten client propel young English lawyer George Grant off on a mystery trip. But what begins as an innocent search for an elusive oilman leads lawyer George Grant into a maze of political intrigue…