Joining six other activists to sail a yacht into Antarctic waters to expose a Japanese whaling fleet, Sara Pollard finds her courage tested by brutal storms and hostile adversaries before encountering a whale with a murderous agenda of its own.

Following an incident with an escaped tiger, nineteenth-century London street urchin Jaffy Brown goes to work for Mr. Charles Jamrach, the famed importer of exotic animals, alongside Tim, a good but sometimes spitefully competitive boy. Mr. Jamrach recruits the two boys to capture a fabled dragon during the course of a three-year whaling expedition to the Dutch East Indies. They succeed in catching the reptilian beast, but when the ship's whaling...