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Voyage of the Narwhal: A Novel
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From the author of the 1996 National Book Award Winner Ship Fever.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…
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- Author: Andrea Barrett
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Year: 1999
- Pages: 416
- ISBN: 9780393347210
- ISBN-10: 0393347214
- ISBN-13: 9780393347210
- Format: ePub
- Language: English
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From the author of the 1996 National Book Award Winner Ship Fever.
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.
- Author: Andrea Barrett
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Year: 1999
- Pages: 416
- ISBN: 9780393347210
- ISBN-10: 0393347214
- ISBN-13: 9780393347210
- Format: ePub
- Language: English English
From the author of the 1996 National Book Award Winner Ship Fever.
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.
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