Mystery! Adventure! Romance! The outcast inventor of a flying apparatus. A courageous woman searching for her lost father, a famous explorer. A murderous pirate who lusts after fabulous treasure … and the explorer’s daughter. When a storm leaves these three stranded in an uncharted Arctic wilderness for six long, dark winter months, who will survive – and how? Webster, a popular author of the early 20th century, wrote short stories and novels with intriguing characters pursuing goals in unusual ways, sometimes in the business world.
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Chapter 1: The Man with Wings. 5
Chapter 2: The Girl on the Ice Floe. 10
Chapter 3: The Murderers. 15
Chapter 4: The Throwing-Stick. 21
Chapter 5: The Dart 27
Chapter 6: Tom’s Confession. 32
Chapter 7: The Rosewood Box. 37
Chapter 8: Apparitions. 41
Chapter 9: Waiting for Dawn. 45
Chapter 10: What the Dawn Brought 50
Chapter 11: The Aurora. 55
Chapter 12: Cayley’s Promise. 59
Chapter 13: Captain Fielding’s Gospel 65
Chapter 14: The Red Bound Book. 70
Chapter 15: Discoveries. 76
Chapter 16: Footprints. 81
Chapter 17: The Beast 85
Chapter 18: A State of Siege. 87
Chapter 19: An Attack. 91
Chapter 20: Roscoe. 96
Chapter 21: A Moonlit Day. 100
Chapter 22: A Sortie. 105
Chapter 23: In the Pilot House. 110
Chapter 24: Signals. 117
Chapter 25: Unwinged. 122
A Note on Google Books. 128
About the (OCR) Editor 129
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At age five, I won my first writing award: a three-foot-long fire truck with an ear-splitting siren. I’ve been addicted to writing ever since. Today I’m an independent researcher, freelance writer, and lecturer. The challenge of figuring out how ideas and facts fit together, and then sharing what I know with others, clearly and concisely – that’s what makes me leap out of bed in the morning. Janson’s *History of Art*, lent to me by a high-school art teacher, was my first clue that art was more than the rock-star posters and garden gnomes that I saw in Catawissa, Pennsylvania, and that history wasn’t just a series of names, dates, and statistics. Soon afterwards I read Ayn Rand’s fiction and nonfiction works, and discovered that art and history – as well as politics, ethics, science, and all fields of human knowledge – are integrated by philosophy. My approach to studying art is based on Rand’s *The Romantic Manifesto*. (See my review of it on Amazon.) As an art historian I’m a passionate amateur, and I write for other passionate amateurs. I love looking at art, and thinking about art, and helping other people have a blast looking at it, too. *Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide* (New York University Press, 2007), which includes 54 sculptures, was described by Sam Roberts in the *New York Times* as ‘a perfect walking-tour accompaniment to help New Yorkers and visitors find, identify and better appreciate statues famous and obscure’ (1/28/2007). Every week I issue four art-related recommendations to my supporters, which have been collected in *Starry Solitudes* (poetry) and *Sunny Sundays* (painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, and more). For more of my works, see https://diannedurantewriter.com/books-essays . Since 2018, I’ve been collecting and publishing Henry Kitchell Webster’s short stories, and republishing his early novels.
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