The Navigator of New York

Devlin Stead is an orphan in late nineteenth-century Newfoundland being raised by his loving aunt and less than loving physician uncle. Devlin grows up an outcast and a loner. And then one day, his uncle summons Dev to his office and hands him an extraordinary life-changing letter from Dr. Frederick Cook, a New York physician and explorer - the first of a series of letters that will alter everything he ever thought he knew about himself. Dev will sail to a New York bursting with the energy of a metropolis about to turn into the capital city of the globe to become Dr. Cook's protégé, to be introduced into society, and eventually to accompany him on his epic race to reach the Pole before his arch-rival Peary. This trip will plunge Dev and Cook into worldwide controversy - and decide his fate.