Patrick Sumner, hoping to escape the horrors of his past, finds himself on an ill-fated journey to the Arctic that throws him into the path of brutish harpooner Henry Drax.

Drax has a plan. Sumner seeks salvation, but strays too far into the ice.

Sumner's adventure turns into a nightmare when one of the crew is murdered. There's no proof, but Sumner can't escape a feeling that Henry Drax is the true culprit.

Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, disgraced ex-army surgeon Patrick Sumner signs up as the ship's doctor on an ill-fated Arctic whaling expedition. Soon he's confronted by a new horror, the brutish killer Henry Drax. When Sumner and his crewmates are left stranded on the merciless Arctic wasteland, he discovers just how far he's prepared to go against the savagery of nature and man.

Bland Simpson, the celebrated bard of North Carolina's sound country, has blended history, observation of nature, and personal narrative in many books to chronicle the people and places of eastern Carolina. Yet, he has spent much of his life in the state's Piedmont, with regular travels into its western mountains. Here, for the first time, Simpson brings his distinctive voice and way of seeing to bear on the entirety of his home state, combining storytelling...

Through soaring images and essays from leading bird conservationists, Wings Over Water provides a stirring glimpse into one of the most vital and threatened of the world's ecosystems, the Prairie Pothole Region and the birds that nest and breed there. This beautiful coffee table book is the companion to the nationally distributed IMAX film of the same name. Wings Over Watercelebrates and promotes the preservation of the prairie wetlands and the birds...