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Format:
Book
Title:
The voyage of the Narwhal : a novel
ISBN:
9780393046328

9780393319507
Edition:
First edition.
Publication:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [1998]
Physical Description:
399 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
His Lists (May 1855) -- Past the Cave Where the Cold Arises (June-July 1855) -- A Riot of Objects (July-August 1855) -- A Little Detour (August-September 1855) -- The Ice in Its Great Abundance (October 1855-March 1856) -- Who Hears the Fishes When They Cry? (April-August 1856) -- The Goblins Known as Innersuit (August-October 1856) -- Toodlamik, Skin and Bones (November 1856-March 1857) -- A Big Stone Slipped from His Grasp (April-August 1857) -- Specimens of the Native Tribes (September 1857) -- The Nightmare Skeleton (October 1857-August 1858).
Summary:
An expedition by sea to the Arctic in 1885 to search for the explorer, John Franklin. The protagonists are two men from Philadelphia, the dynamic but foolhardy organizer and his companion, a naturalist who considers himself a loser. The loser lives, the dynamo dies. By the author of Ship Fever.
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