ANDREA BARRETT

"THE VOYAGE OF THE NARWHAL"

EXPLORATION, ENDEAVOR AND EVOLUTION IN THE FROZEN NORTH

Wydawnictwo - BCA

Liczba stron - 400

Stan - bardzo dobry-

OPIS:

Capturing a crucial moment in the history of exploration—the mid-nineteenth century romance with the Arctic—Andrea Barrett's compelling novel tells the story of a fateful expedition. Through the eyes of the ship's scholar-naturalist, Erasmus Darwin Wells, we encounter the ?Narwhal?'s crew, its commander, and the far-north culture of the Esquimaux. In counterpoint, we meet the women left behind in Philadelphia, explorers only in imagination. Together, those who travel and those who stay weave a web of myth and mystery, finally discovering what they had not sought, the secrets of their own hearts. 16 steel engravings and one map