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The Voyage of the Narwhal
Author: Barrett, Andrea
ISBN: 9780006551416
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year First Published: 1999
Pages: 400
Dimensions: 197mm x 131mm x 24mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
`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.
ISBN: 9780006551416
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year First Published: 1999
Pages: 400
Dimensions: 197mm x 131mm x 24mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
`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.