The North water

a novel

255 pages

English language

Published Nov. 10, 2016

ISBN:
978-1-62779-594-4
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OCLC Number:
912140701

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The Volunteer, a nineteenth-century Yorkshire whaling ship, becomes the stage for a confrontation between brutal harpooner Henry Drax and ex-army surgeon Patrick Sumner, the ship's medic, during a violent, ill-fated voyage to the Arctic.

12 editions

Subjects

  • Whaling
  • Whaling ships
  • Fiction

Places

  • Arctic regions