Arctic Drift [SEP] series
Arctic Drift
Arctic Drift is a Dirk Pitt novel, the 20th of the series and was released on November 25, 2008.
Plot.
The plot begins in the year 1847, when the Franklin Expedition becomes stranded trying to find the Northwest Passage. They experience a harsh winter. The men are seemingly going mad. Their stranded ships ("Erebus" and "Terror") are loaded with a mysterious, unidentified silvery metal. The story switches to the present day. There is an ongoing quest to save
through the Fram Strait.
See also.
- Beaufort Gyre
References.
- Althoff, William F. "Drift Station: Arctic Outposts of Superpower Science". Potomac Books Inc. 2007, Dulles, Virginia. p. 51
- Mysak, Lawrence A. "Patterns of Arctic Circulation", "Science". New Series, Vol. 293, No. 5533 (Aug. 17, 2001), pp. 1269–1270.