‘North, winner of a special award at the Banff Mountain Festival’

This is a tale of an American lieutenant who sailed away on the great adventure that would make his name: of the young woman he left behind: of political treachery in high places: and of men watching at the edge of the Arctic Ocean for a ship that never came. For Martha Parish, watching the betrayers going about their business in the heart of government, it is the end of innocence. Though separation, as she discovers, is no barrier to faithful love.

Meanwhile Lt. Parish, both deliverer and bungling fool to those around him, struggles to hold the party together as men at the end of their tether discover what they have it in them to become.

Set in the late nineteenth century, and based on what has been called 'one of the most shameful episodes in American Arctic history', Roger Hubank's new novel explores the tragic story of the expedition's terrible ordeal and it's inevitable end.

Roger Hubank's previous book Hazard's Way won the Grand Prix at Banff Mountain Festival 2001 and also the Boardman-Tasker Award 2001.