The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales — EPUB + Audiobook

An icebound whaler waits in the Arctic night while its captain follows a voice no one else can hear.

Before Sherlock Holmes made him famous, Arthur Conan Doyle was already writing tales of polar dread, uncanny experiments, vanished time, ancient Egypt, and dangerous obsession. This complete ten-story collection opens with the unforgettable title novella and ranges from Gothic suspense to speculative science and frontier adventure.

This Nile Book Store edition includes:
Clean, reflowable ten-story EPUB with working navigation
Complete 9-hour, 24-minute public-domain audiobook read by Richard Kilmer
Twenty-five clearly labeled audio tracks
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Stories include:
The Captain of the “Pole-Star,” J. Habakuk Jephson’s Statement, The Great Keinplatz Experiment, The Man from Archangel, That Little Square Box, John Huxford’s Hiatus, Cyprian Overbeck Wells, John Barrington Cowles, Elias B. Hopkins, and The Ring of Thoth.

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“Still lying-to amid enormous ice fields. The one which stretches away to the north of us, and to which our ice-anchor is attached, cannot be smaller than an English county.”

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Digital product: EPUB and MP3 audiobook ZIP; no physical item will be shipped. Text: Project Gutenberg eBook #294. Audio: LibriVox. Both are public domain in the United States. This text edition contains no genuine interior illustrations.