Under the Great Bear

The narrative follows a newly graduated engineer who signs on to a steamship that founders, leaving him stranded on a life raft and beginning a sequence of northern adventures. He links with a small craft called the Sea Bee and its captain, confronts international naval tensions, survives icebergs, blizzards, and long Arctic drifts, and meets native communities, a missionary, and the enigmatic man-wolf. Episodes of capture, escape, and improvised industry lead to involvement with a remote mine. The work emphasizes survival, practical ingenuity, and cross-cultural encounters amid the harsh seas and ice of the far north.