: Frank Christian DeFazio
: Ice Island, The Legend of the Woolly Creatures
: First Edition Design Publishing
: 9781622872121
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: English
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Close to Wrangel Island in northern present day Siberia lays a small remote island called Ice Island. Dr. Peter Harrison and his assistant Dr. Rosita Yorgonavich are on a search and adventure as they try to locate some creatures that were possibly spotted on the island. They are on the lookout for some Woolly Mammoths, Woolly Rhinos and possibly a Saber Tooth Tiger.

 

CHAPTER 1 - The Meeting From Russia


It is a rainy and windy day here in the capital, usual weather for the springtime here. This late March in 2012 has me sitting at my desk reminiscing about my youth in Pennsylvania. I used to go out in the rain and look for frogs and salamanders in the field behind my parents’ house in my youth. Later in college on days like these I would put on my rain coat and volunteer taking elementary school children on nature hikes in the Allegheny forest of north central Pennsylvania. Now I am forty years old and a doctor and professional here at the Smithsonian institute. It seems these days I have a little more time to sit at my desk and ponder things over. I am in sort of a midlife crisis and yearn for some excitement and adventure. I have been here at the Smithsonian for eleven years now working. Don’t get me wrong. I love my work here as a zoologist and scientist of mammals for the institute. But it has been three years since I had an outdoor assignment somewhere in a different country and I miss the excitement. My name is Peter Harrison and I am a single man and never married and totally dedicated to my profession. I on several occasions have explored South America and Africa for new species of mammals. I have even discovered a new species of rodent in South America after a few months of wondering in the Amazon jungle. While doing this I came down with malaria which almost resulted in my death. I realized in my adventures and explorations while in the Amazon that I love being out in the field and discovering new species of wildlife.

Today I have a meeting with my boss Dr. John Klotz at 2:00 pm. He says he has some good news for me. It is 1:45 pm and I am just about done putting into my computer inventory of new specimens sent to the institute from Honduras. Well I am done with my work for today time to go to that meeting down the hall at John Klotz's office.

I enter the first part of his office where his personal secretary is working."Good morning Miss Gentry. How are you today?"

"Good, take a seat and I'll let Dr. Klotz know you are here." She gets up from her desk and enters his office and closes the door behind her. She reenters the room I am in and tells me that I can now go in and see him.

I enter his room kind of excited and a little nervous."Good morning John". We go on a first name basis for years now. He responds with a