Though young readers might be the audience, anyone of any age can learn amazing details about icebergs and glaciers after reading this book. W. H. Davenport  Adams  does an excellent job of making the information both understandable and interesting. He covers what an iceberg is and then proceeds to tell of their effects on the world's landscape. Tales of the explorers from Cook in the Antarctic as well as Weddell and Dumont d' Urville. Over decades of ships seeking passage and being locked in the ice.  Sir James Ross seeking the south magnetic pole and south of Cape Horn.  Stories of the north east passage with Barents on the shores of Novaia Zemlaia and Henry Hudson, Captain Poole, Baffin and Captain Phipps. Narratives of Sir Edward Parry in 1827 travels across ice fields to the icebergs in Baffin Bay.  Expeditions to the north pole. The north west passage with Franklin and the expeditions to find him, etc.,  

William Henry Davenport Adams (1828–1891), was an English writer and journalist of the 19th century, notable for a number of his publications. He .was the only son of Samuel Adams