The world lay frozen under a thousand feet of ice. Only in the Eight Cities of the Matto Grosso did men still live, hunting the wary ice whales for meat and oil, and following the creed of the Ice Mother which foretold the end of all life in ultimate cold.
But legend told of a city far to the north - fabled New York - whose towers rose above the ice, whose crypts held the forgotten lore that might bring warmth to Earth once again. In the best ice ship in the Eight Cities, Konrad Arflane embarked on the impossible voyable to New York - an odyssey of incredible peril and adventure with a shattering discovery at the journey's end...
- ISBN10 0722162162
- ISBN13 9780722162163
- Publish Date March 1969
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Sphere
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English