Fourteen-year-old Al is spending the summer on the shores of Ontario’s James Bay with his eccentric archaeologist father, who is determined to find proof of the first European explorers to visit the area. On their last day there, Al paddles his canoe away from the rocky, tree-lined shore and is strangely overtaken by a thick fog that disorients him. As the mist rolls over him, Al is startled to see a ship in the distance that he recognizes as the Discovery, whose captain was the ill-fated Henry Hudson. Is it a ghostly apparition?
Paddling back to shore, Al expects to see the familiar campsite, but instead finds he has been transported four hundred years into the past. Can Al solve the mystery of Henry Hudson’s disappearance? Will he find his way back to the present? Or will he suffer the same destiny as the doomed explorer?
About the Author
John Wilson is the author of North with Franklin: The Lost Journals of James Fitzjames and six young adult novels.
