Debra Doyle & James D. MacDonald, Land of Mist & Snow Reviews

“Land of Mist and Snow ”

Written on: 10/10/2006 by Harriet Klausner (18660 reviews written)

Land of Mist and Snow
Debra Doyle & James D. MacDonald
Eos, December 2006, $7.99, 320 pp
ISBN 0060819197

When his ship burned, Lieutenant John Nevis files papers for the War Department while waiting to get a new seagoing assignment. In 1863 he is ordered to take possession of Rodman guns and take them to his new posting as head of the gunnery department of the USS Nicodemus. He is taken to the Naval Experimental shipyard in Thule near the Arctic Circle, a place shrouded in secrecy. When... (read more)