{"product_id":"2940046599978","title":"Ice Escape","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s the Age of Flight, and twelve year old American, John, and his family\u003cbr\u003eare flying round the world in a plane piloted by his father.\u003cbr\u003eThey aim to be the first family to do this. But problems beset them,\u003cbr\u003ewhen their plane, a Sikorsky Amphibian, is forced to crash land on an\u003cbr\u003eice floe off the shores of Greenland. Will\u003cbr\u003ehelp come in time?\u003cbr\u003eA Scottish fishing boat picks up their distress signals. The crew abandon fishing, and set a\u003cbr\u003eterrifying course through Iceberg Alley, to rescue the survivors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's the Great Depression too.\u003cbr\u003eOn the boat is Colin, also twelve, a boy who has joined the crew as deckhand, to support his family after his\u003cbr\u003eown father had died at sea. As the skipper steers the boat through the\u003cbr\u003eperils of Iceberg Alley, Colin, initially fearful of the sea, becomes\u003cbr\u003efascinated by the wireless signals between boats and\u003cbr\u003eradio station on land. He hears the failing distress signals, then sees\u003cbr\u003eflares from an ice floe, showing the position of the\u003cbr\u003esurvivors.\u003cbr\u003eAfter several attempts, the lifeboat eventually reaches the stranded\u003cbr\u003efamily; the crew carry them to the lifeboat, and row them back to the\u003cbr\u003ebig boat, under a dark sky lit by the Aurora Borealis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a story in the 1930s about life on the high seas and in the air.\u003cbr\u003eIt is a story of adventure and hardship, inspired by the 1932\u003cbr\u003eadventures of the American Hutchinson Family, known as the Flying\u003cbr\u003eFamily, whose dream of circumnavigating the world by plane ended when\u003cbr\u003ethey were forced to crash-land in the icebergs near Greenland. The\u003cbr\u003eauthor’s own grandfather skippered the boat that rescued the Hutchinsons\u003cbr\u003eand their crew, and grew up on the tales of the dramatic events.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"B Hale","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078710575344,"sku":"2940046599978","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940046599978_p0.jpg?v=1763695700","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940046599978","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}