Title: The collector of lost things
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.
Subjects: Naturalists, Fiction, Scientific expeditions, Great auk, Fiction, historical, Arctic regions, fiction, Fiction, historical, general
Places: Arctic regions, Arctic Regions
People: Eliot (Fictitious character) Saxby
Time periods: 19th century