The Voyage of the Narwhal: A Novel

“A luminous work of historic fiction that explores the far reaches of the Arctic and of males’s souls.” ―Denver Publish

Capturing an important second within the historical past of exploration―the mid-nineteenth century romance with the Arctic―Andrea Barrett’s compelling novel tells the story of a fateful expedition. Via the eyes of the ship’s scholar-naturalist, Erasmus Darwin Wells, we encounter the Narwhal‘s crew, its commander, and the far-north tradition of the Esquimaux. In counterpoint, we meet the ladies left behind in Philadelphia, explorers solely in creativeness. Collectively, those that journey and those that keep weave an internet of fantasy and thriller, lastly discovering what they’d not sought, the secrets and techniques of their very own hearts.

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