ALEC RAMSEY IS THE SURVIVOR OF A DISASTROUS ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION WHICH ABANDONED HIS REVERED FRIEND AND LEADER OF THE PARTY, STEPHEN LEEMING. FOR FORTY YEARS, IN THE SECURITY OF ACADEMIA, RAMSEY HAS NURTURED WITH GUILT HIS DOUBTS ABOUT THIS INCIDENT. NOW LEEMING'S BODY IS, AGAINST ALL ODDS, TO BE EXHUMED FROM THE ANTARCTIC ICECAP, RAMSEY MUST CONFRONT HIS OBSESSION AND DECIDED WHETHER HE REALLY DID - OR CAN CONTINUE TO- SURVIVE AT ALL. WHAT, OF COURSE, HE FEARED WAS A CHANGE IN THE ESSENCE OF HIS LIFE, A CHANGE AS ABSOLUTE AS DEATH. ADVANCE COPIES SENT TO ED IWANICKI AND DAN FARLEY - 25/1/85.
- ISBN10 0947072497
- ISBN13 9780947072490
- Publish Date 1 December 1991 (first published 26 March 1970)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 January 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Chivers North America
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Language English