In 1922 the polar exploration vessel Raven sailed from Hobart in the early hours of the morning, south into the icy embrace of the Antarctic Ocean. Neither she nor the 28 souls aboard her were ever seen again. In 2005, during a visit to an Australian Antarctic station, a writer discovers a long-lost journal - the only surviving artefact and evidence of the fate of the Raven expedition. It is a discovery that will consume his life and eat into his soul. INTO WHITE SILENCE is the story of a collision between the past and the present, the folly of ambition, and the ghosts of the ice.
Author description
Anthony Eaton is the author of The Darkness (awarded the 2001 WA Premier's Award for YA Literature) and the historic fiction novel Fireshadow (which won the 2005 WA Premier's Award for YA Literature.) To assist in the research for Into White Silence, he spent Christmas of 2005 at Casey Station on the east coast of Antarctica as part of the Australian Antarctic Division's Arts Fellowships programme.
