Into White Silence

In the ice, silence is forever... an Antarctic novel to rival 2008 Printz Winner Geraldine McCaughrean's The White Darkness

The view on the other side was as breathtaking as it was frightening. The other side of that ridge was a glimpse down into a broken, fractured hell. Enormous upthrusts of ice rising fifteen or twenty feet into the air, jagged-edged ridges bisecting one another at strange angles and, here and there between them, the odd glimpse of dark, dangerous, fathomless water. It might well have been my imagination, but I thought for a moment that I could almost detect a slight movement – the tiniest heave of deep ocean swells, trembling through that tortured, frozen seascape.

During the winter of 1922, the Exploration Vessel Raven became trapped in the Antarctic icepack, entombing twenty-eight men aboard it through the dark, polar night. Into White Silence tells their story – a story of a lost past, of a tragic future, of ice, ambition and madness. It captures the terrible, fascinating beauty of Antarctica, both as it was then and is today, and is a journey into the mind of every person who has ever set foot upon those ice-bound shores.