The collector of lost things
Subtitle: a novel
By: Jeremy Page
Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9781605984858; 9781605986418
Subjects: Naturalists; Fiction; Scientific expeditions; Great auk
Description: In 1845, young researcher Eliot Saxby is paid to go on an Arctic expedition to find the remains of the by-now-extinct great auk, a large, flightless bird of mythical status, and is trapped on a hunting ship where the crew and passengers are not what they seem.