The plot revolves around Birdie and Adam, who meet under bizarre circumstances, and their quest to find what really happened to Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his men during their Antarctic expedition. The mystery of the failed expedition is why did Scott and his men spend over a week in a tent only eleven miles from the safety of a depot? Birdie has been obsessed with this mystery for years and is determined, with Adam's help, to find out what happened to Scott and his men.
This title is interesting in that we get some history behind the expedition, both through Adam and Birdie's research and through some flashbacks to Scott's camp. The real focus of the book is the budding relationship between Adam and Birdie. Pierce's descriptions of the Antarctic landscape are intense and well worth the read.
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