into the icy maze of the city of neverness a wild boy stumbles spear in hand starving frostbitten and grieving danlo the wild raised by faroff alaloi neanderthal cavedwellers survived a plague that took all of his tribe now he must find who engineered the disease and how he can cure it and what kind of man he will grow up into as he enters the order of mystic mathematicians and other seekers of the ineffable flamehis journey has only begun in stunning prose philbrick evokes the drama of the voyage of the mayflower and the eerie emptiness of coastal massachusetts that greeted the pilgrims specially adapted for middlegrade readers this nonfiction book includes new maps and photographs a time line and a list of characters for added comprehension and accessibility