Voyage of the Narwhal
Andrea Barrett
W.W. Norton & Company (1999)
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#2967
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Historical Fiction
Arctic Regions, Explorers, Historical Fiction, Polar Regions, Sea Stories
Trade Paperback 9780393319507
English
Capturing a crucial moment in the history of exploration, the mid-nineteenth century romance with the Arctic, Andrea Barrett focuses on a particular expedition and its accompanying scholar-naturalist, Erasmus Darwin Wells. Through his eyes, we meet the Narwhal's crew and its commander-obsessed with the search for an open polar sea-and encounter the far-north culture of the Esquimaux. In counterpoint, we see the women left behind in Philadelphia, explorers only in imagination. Together, those who travel and those who stay weave a web of myth and mystery. And finally they discover-as all explorers do-not what was always there and never needed discovering, but the state of their own souls.
Product Details
Dewey 813.54
Cover Price $17.50
No. of Pages 399
Height x Width 8.0 x 5.5  inch
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