Publisher's Synopsis
Sheil's free-flowing and persuasive style of writing produces a convincing portrait of Adam Jefferson -- a man who, upon returning alone from an expedition to the North Pole, learns that a world-wide catastrophe has left him the last man on Earth. Matthew Phipps Shiel (his surname was originally spelled Shiell) (July 21, 1865 - February 17, 1947), was a prolific British writer of fantastic fiction, remembered mostly for supernatural and scientific romances. His work was published as novels, short stories and as serials.
