The Doldrums

The Doldrums
Nicholas Gannon

Archer B. Helmsley longs for adventure. But how can he have an adventure when he can’t even leave his house?Archer B. Helmsley has grown up in a house full of oddities and treasures collected by his grandparents, the famous explorers. Archer longs for grand adventures but ever since his grandparents went missing on an iceberg, his mother barely lets him leave the house. So, along with his best friends, Adélaïde L. Belmont and Oliver Grub, Archer forms a plan to get out of the house and set off on a grand adventure with crocodiles and parachutes and danger. It's a good plan. Well, it's not bad, anyway. But nothing goes quite as they expected…

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First published in the USA by HarperCollins Publishers Inc in 2015

First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2015

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Source ISBN: 9780008149390

Ebook Edition © September 2015 ISBN: 9780008149413

Version: 2015-09-17

DEDICATION (#ulink_74c032a0-7a32-5671-b0da-210b95f18fb3)

To my mother,

Cathleen Gannon

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover (#uf2a23826-83e8-5871-9f4d-84900e838c2c)

Title Page (#u58ff96e2-125b-571c-bcfe-af20020a5284)

Copyright (#ulink_65468a1b-016a-563c-b309-cd5da4be4cd8)

Dedication (#ulink_2b44d092-8ad9-5798-b334-4cbb5d7c8d43)

PROLOGUE: Great White Nothingness (#ulink_15020478-e63d-5d32-a6b9-9815e5d3cd3e)

PART ONE: ARCHER B. HELMSLEY (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER ONE: Helmsley House (#ulink_71daa39c-9cc7-5c30-89d0-eb5a17c7805b)

CHAPTER TWO: Mind Your Tongue (#ulink_396e442a-3f36-5b89-a532-ab121b82d041)

CHAPTER THREE: Archer the Submersible (#ulink_32142a73-ef95-5897-b655-b15b51c8efd6)

CHAPTER FOUR: Doers & Dreamers (#ulink_ff92c55b-d70e-5608-af63-afb30450ac42)

CHAPTER FIVE: A Stole in Summer (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER SIX: A Change of Scenery (#litres_trial_promo)

PART TWO: A GIRL FROM THE NORTH OF PARIS (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER SEVEN: A Girl in the North of Paris (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER EIGHT: Goldfinch Spy (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER NINE: Arctic-Related Accidents (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER TEN: Crocodile Indigestion (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER ELEVEN: Insult to Injury (#litres_trial_promo)

PART THREE: THE JOURNEY BEGINS (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER TWELVE: The Journey Begins (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: A Not-So-Good Plan (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Warehouse Ward (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Permission to Sneak (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: A Southern Gale (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Ballerina’s Spin (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Credits (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)