The Polar Bear Explorers' Club by Alex Bell

Author:Alex Bell [Alex Bell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571332557
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2017-11-23T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

The ship wasn’t far away and it didn’t take long to find it. It was frozen at an angle in the ice, looking pale and ghostly in the moonlight with the prow rising up into the sky, its shredded sails hanging in tatters, and gaping holes showing through the rotted, crumbling wood. Cold and still in the starlight, it seemed like a dead thing, a husk, a ghost ship.

‘Wow,’ Shay said. ‘That is extraordinary.’ He turned to grin at the others. ‘Isn’t being an explorer just the best thing in the whole world, ever?’

Everyone agreed that the ship was magnificent, but the problem was that it wasn’t stuck in the middle of a vast, flat expanse of ice, as they had expected. At first, Stella thought it was perched on the edge of a cliff, but then she saw that this was no cliff – it was a wave that had frozen right at its highest peak. A ladder ran all the way up the ship’s hull but the rungs sparkled with ice, and the whole thing looked a bit precarious.

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