โ Steven Heighton
๐ Fiction
๐
2005;2010
๐ Knopf Canada;Vintage Canada
๐ English
โ 392 KB
๐ 1 views
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Afterlands
โ Scribed by Steven Heighton
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada;Vintage Canada
- Year
- 2005;2010
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 392 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
In 1872, the USS Polaris sailed for the Arctic on a mission to hoist the U.S. flag at the North Pole. But the expedition was a failure, and half of the party -- nineteen men, women and children of different nationalities--were cast adrift on an ice floe off the coast of Ellesmere Island, where they endured six desperate months of starvation, bloodshed and other horrors. Afterlands ,__ a profoundly moving and gripping book, takes characters drawn from history and transforms their experiences into an absorbing tale of unrequited love, unsettled scores and the high cost of loyalty.
The novel begins in 1876, when three of the survivors -- George Tyson, Tukulito and Roland Kruger--are uneasily reunited four years after they were rescued from the ice. They are still inextricably connected by their ordeal--and Tyson has recently published an account of their shattering experiences which casts Kruger as a spy and villain, and disgraces Tukulito as...
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