Book description
Fourteen-year-old Al is spending the summer on the shores of
Ontario's James Bay with his eccentric archaeologist father. On their
last day there, Al paddles his canoe awawy from the rocky, tree-lined
shore and is strangely overtaken by a thickfog that disorients him. As
the mist rolls over him, Al is startled to see a ship in the distance
that he recognizes as the Discover, whose captain was the
ill-fated Henry Hudson. Is it a ghostly apparition?
"Once again, John Wilson brings alive the past. This is a
gripping adventure and successful time slip fantasy that will have
middle and high school students glued to the pages." John Wilson
was born in 1951 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He did his early growing up on
the Island of Skye and in Paisley, near Glasgow. From 1969 to 1974, he
attended the University of St. Andrews where he took an Honours B. Sc..
in Geology and never played golf once. He took a position with the
Geological Survey of Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). In his two years there, he
mapped rocks, dodged land mines and watched the country sink ever deeper
into civil war. Shortly before he was due to be called into the army,
John retreated back to Britain on his way to the safety of Canada. He
settled on Calgary where geology was booming and the only danger was
freezing to death in January. In 1979, he moved to Edmonton to take up a
post with the Alberta Geological Survey. In 1988 he sold a feature
article to the Globe and Mail. This fueled a smouldering mid-life crisis
and he took up freelance writing full-time. With some success, John
mined the experiences of his travels for articles, journalism and photo
essays. He even began to express himself poetically and, with a young
family, began writing children's stories. He moved to Nanaimo and then
Lantzville on Vancouver Island. John has been widely published by a
number of Canadian presses, with his accolades including a shortlisting
for the Governor General's Award.
