Journey to the Comet

Edinburgh, 1904.

When a celebrated astronomer announces that a comet is on a collision course with Earth, panic sweeps through the scientific establishment. But Dr Nathaniel Malmborough, a young researcher at the Royal Observatory, discovers a flaw in the calculations. His own figures tell a very different story-and they catch the attention of the enigmatic explorer Sir A. Armstrong Armitage.

Within days, Nathaniel is swept into the most audacious expedition in human history: a voyage to the...