01649cam a2200289 4500 214839218 TxAuBib 20131202120000.0 131202s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781605984858 160598485X TxAuBib Page, Jeremy. The collector of lost things : a novel / by Jeremy Page. New York : Pegasus Books, [2013] 373 pages ; 23 cm. The year is 1845 and young researcher Eliot Saxby is paid to go on an expedition to the Arctic in the hope of finding remains of the by now extinct Great Auk. He joins a regular hunting ship, but the crew and the passengers are not what they seem. Caught in the web of relationships on board, Eliot struggles to understand the motivations of the sociopathic, embroidery-loving Captain Sykes, the silent First Mate French, the flamboyant laudanum-addicted Bletchley and, most importantly of all, Bletchley's beautiful but strange 'cousin' Clara. As the ship moves further and further into the wilds of the Arctic sea, Eliot clings to what he believes in, desperate to save Clara but drawn irrevocably back into the past that haunts him. 20131202. Ocean travel Arctic regions Fiction. Quests (Expeditions) Fiction. Researchers Fiction. Voyages and travels Fiction. Extinct animals Fiction. Arctic regions History 19th century Fiction. Historical fiction. Nature fiction.