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Name: An Old Captivity
Author: Nevil Shute

A dedicated aviator undertakes a perilous flight to Greenland, where he is entrusted with escorting an Oxford professor. Their joint mission is to investigate the historic claim that Norwegians were the first Europeans to settle in Greenland, combining air exploration with scholarly inquiry.

First publish date: 1940

Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction

Authors: Nevil Shute

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