The greatest adventure

About the book

Dr. Eric Lane's comfortable life of research is interrupted by a discovery that does not fit ordinary expectations about natural forms. A sea captain's account and an extraordinary organism suggest a mystery in the Antarctic, prompting an expedition to investigate what might lie behind it. The pursuit joins archaeological curiosity to biological speculation, raising the possibility that knowledge once existed whose consequences remain active rather than safely fossilized. Taine builds the adventure around a scientist's desire to understand and the danger of treating discovery as automatically beneficial. The personal relationships within the party give the remote landscape more than an abstract research interest. This Ace Books text carries the novel's 1929 copyright and presents an expedition whose enlarging evidence challenges the assumptions with which it began.

• Discovery and responsibility
• Biological experimentation
• Lost knowledge

Why read it

The mystery of the specimen makes exploration and scientific interpretation parts of the same developing danger.

English Ace Books text carrying the 1929 copyright