The voyage of the Narwhal : a novel /
Barrett, Andrea
The voyage of the Narwhal : a novel / Andrea Barrett - 1st ed. - New York : W.W. Norton, c1998 - 399 p. : illus. ; 24 cm
Through the eyes of the ship's scholar-naturalist, Erasmus Darwin Wells, we encounter the Narwhal 's crew, its commander, and the far-north culture of the Esquimaux. In counterpoint, we meet 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, finally discovering what they had not sought, the secrets of their own hearts. 16
English
9780393046328
Discoveries in geography--Fiction
Explorers--Fiction
Arctic regions--Fiction
Polar regions--Fiction
FIC BAR
The voyage of the Narwhal : a novel / Andrea Barrett - 1st ed. - New York : W.W. Norton, c1998 - 399 p. : illus. ; 24 cm
Through the eyes of the ship's scholar-naturalist, Erasmus Darwin Wells, we encounter the Narwhal 's crew, its commander, and the far-north culture of the Esquimaux. In counterpoint, we meet 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, finally discovering what they had not sought, the secrets of their own hearts. 16
English
9780393046328
Discoveries in geography--Fiction
Explorers--Fiction
Arctic regions--Fiction
Polar regions--Fiction
FIC BAR
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