Buried In Ice: A Time Quest Book | 
 enlarge | Authors: Owen Beattie, John Geiger, Shelley Tanaka
Publisher: Scholastic
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 525692
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 64
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.2
ISBN: 0590438492
Dewey Decimal Number: 919.804
EAN: 9780590438490
ASIN: 0590438492
Publication Date: December 1, 1993
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Product Description
Luke Smith, a fictional stoker on board one of the ships looking for the fabled Northwest Passage in 1845, tells of the events that befell the two ships, while, 135 years later, an anthropologist unravels the mystery of what happened.
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Great book! April 15, 2005
This book is really cool, although those who don't like pictures of slightly (but not much) decayed bodies will not like some of the pictures. I personally think they are cool and amazing. I really enjoyed the way the author put what they thought happened into a story.
 The Photos Alone Are Worth the Stars February 10, 2003
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
After seeing a clip on the Franklin Expedition in a documentary on mummies, I rushed to the library to see if there was a book on the subject. The only one available was this book in the juvenile section. At first I was disappointed, but, noticing a photo of the preserved body of one of the sailors, I checked it out. For a kids' book, this one is pretty cool. The first part of the book is a fictionalized (and very sanitized) story of chief stoker John Torrington and his friend and stoker Luke Smith on the HMS Terror. William Braine and Thomas Hartnell (John's brother) also make appearances. This story leaves the reader with questions that the author will answer in the second section describing the disinterring of Torrington, John Hartnell, and Braine and the information their well-preserved remains revealed. The photos are amazing and make this book fascinating for all ages. The first illustration of Torrington in the fictionalized story has him wearing the same articles found on his corpse (an intriguing, if a bit creepy, touch). The reading level and, at times, disturbing content is probably appropriate for kids 5th grade and up.
 a picture is worth a thousand nightmares December 17, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
My mother gave this book to me when I was ten, which was a very long time ago. Those images of the mummies, so well-preserved that they don't look like mummies but like still-living human beings in some eternal pain we can't imagine -- they gave me nightmares then and they can still chill me to the stomach.
scared s---tless December 17, 2001
My mother gave this book to me when I was ten, which was a very long time ago. Those images of the mummies, so well-preserved that they don't look like mummies but like still-living human beings in some eternal pain we can't imagine -- they gave me nightmares then and they can still chill me to the stomach.
Buried in Ice February 1, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Buried in Ice is about two boats who went to the Arctic to discover new parts. They all died! Nobody worried though,because they had a three year supply of food. What I like about the book is it's story,and adventure at the same time. Mystery because they want to find out what happenned to the crew. Adventure to survive in the cold. I think we should apritiate explorers. For risking thier lives to find new things. These people tried to explor the Arctic. To find new places that were not put on the map yet,but they are now.
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