Voyage of the Narwhal

✍ Scribed by Barrett, Andrea

• Book ID: 108686247
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 8 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780393347210

✦ Synopsis

"A luminous work of historical fiction that explores the far reaches of the Arctic and of men's souls."—?Denver PostCapturing a crucial moment in the history of exploration—the mid-nineteenth century romance with the Arctic—Andrea Barrett's compelling novel tells the story of a fateful expedition. 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.