The Seven Professors of the Far North is a children's novel by John Fardell first published in 2004 by UK publisher Faber and Faber, with a US edition being published in 2005 by G. P. Putnam's Sons.
It tells the tale of a group of children from the United Kingdom, Sam, Zara, and Ben, who undertake an adventure to the Arctic to rescue Zara and Ben's great-uncle and his colleagues, who have been kidnapped by an evil professor with whom they once worked.
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