An Old Captivity

An Old Captivity is a novel by British author Nevil Shute. It was first published in the UK in 1940.
A young airman, an Oxford don and his beautiful daughter are on an expedition to the Arctic. This time-travel story tells how they are transported by explorers of another age: the Norsemen and their long ships of a thousand years before.
Exhibits his talents at their provocative best New York Times Nevil Shute's books always have a real hero...intensely romantic along with the realism, intensely real along with the romanticism, and peculiarly absorbing.