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.
Reviews of The Voyage of the Narwhal (Text Only)
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- ‘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
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