ICE STATION ZEBRA

Dedication
Characters
Plot
Excerpt
Miscellany

Dedication:
To Lachlan, Michael and Alistair
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Characters:

Doctor Carpenter
On The U.S.S. Dolphin
Commander Swanson
Lieutenant Hansen
Torpedoman Rawlings
Radioman Zabrinksi
Doctor Benson

From Drift Ice Station Zebra
Doctor Jolly
Kinnaird
Captain Folsom
Naseby

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Plot:

Drift Ice Station Zebra is almost totally destroyed by an oil fire. Since it, Britain's sole meterological station in the Arctic, was established about 300 miles from the North Pole, the United States nuclear submarine Dolphin has to go sail beneath the ice-floes of the Arctic ocean and to locate and rescue the survivors. Along for the ride is a suspicious Dr Carpenter who claims Ice Station Zebra is something else entirely.

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Excerpt:

" My executive offucer, Torpedoman Rawlings and Radioman Zabrinski," Swanson said formally, " don't like this."
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" They won't let you go through with it," Swanson went on, " unless, that is, you will permit them to accompany you, which they have volunteered to do."
" Volunteered," Rawlings sniffed. " You, you, and you."
" I don't want them," I said.
" Gracious, ain't he?" Rawlings asked of no one in particular. " You might at least have said thanks, Doc."
" You are putting the lives of your men in danger, Commander Swanson. You know what your orders said....
" What do your men think of your making them risk their lives to save the good name of the submarine service?"
" You heard the captain," Rawlings said. " We're volunteers. Look at Zabrinski there, anyone can see that he is a man cast in a heroic mould."
" Have you thought of what happens," I said, " if the ice closes in when we're away and the captain has to take the ship down."
" Don't even talk of it," Zabrinski urged. " I'm not all that heroic."

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Miscellany:

My sister scammed me out of our copy of this book when I was about 3. It's quite annoying, embarrassing and all, but then a three year old has skewed priorities. If anybody's interested I might get around to posting it here.

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