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Peter Nichols' novel, which has been likened to the works of Jack London and Joseph Conrad, immediately rose to top places on best-seller lists across the country. Voyage to the North Star offers an amazing mixture of high-seas excitement and individuals folly. It is also filled with authentic aspect, since Nichols can be an experienced sailor who may have made a solo journey over the Atlantic. Carl Schenck is fabulously wealthy, but he aspires to be always a great hunter. Africa is too tame, so in 1932 he purchases the Lodestar and equips the yacht in luxury. Outfitted with rubberized boots and an arsenal of guns, Schenck pieces out for Arctic waters to shoot bears, seals, and "every pet animal in sight." As days and nights unfold on the iced horizon, peril after peril confronts the fishing boat and its team. Although Schenck is unstoppable, others on the Lodestar are forever improved by this ill-fated voyage. Narrator George Guidall's performance conveys all the dangerous magic of the icy seas and captures the increasing madness of Schenck's expedition.
