Not another shipwreck! Yes and no. The shipwreck happened long ago, thus casting our waif on the Eastern shores of Norway where he is adopted by a fisherman. But, who is he? That is the crux of this story; he search for his identity. Written in collaboration with Andre Laurie, this is one of the better unsung novels of Verne. The Verne part is most likely the search for a Northeast Passage from Northern Scandinavia to the Pacific Ocean. This is interesting, and better than many of the lesser-known Verne novels.

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