The Voyage of the Narwhal
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The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
`A great, shivery, seductive read.’ Elle Intelligent, accessible literary fiction of the highest order. Superbly dramatic and beautifully readable. A terrific tale of high endeavour and polar peril, this is the story of a scientific expedition to the Arctic in 1855 and the women the explorers left behind. A brilliant portrait of Victorian society obsessed with mapping and classifying everything under the sun – including the icy Arctic – where the emancipation of women and the evolution of species are the next great revolutions just stirring into life.‘The clarity and depth of the story dazzle’
The Times
‘Enthralling, rivetingly authentic’
Literary Review
‘Crammed full of rich, pictorial description and tingling suspense’
New York Times
‘Among the most emotionally wrenching, subtle works of the century’
amazon.com
Andrea Barrett lives in upstate New York. Her previous book, Ship Fever, a collection of short stories, won the US National Book Award in 1996, and was published in Flamingo in December 1999.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780006551416 |
| ISBN 10 | 0006551416 |
| Title | The Voyage of the Narwhal |
| Author | Andrea Barrett |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2000-03-06 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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