`A great, shivery, seductive read.’ ElleIntelligent, 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 theemancipation of women and the evolution of species are the next great revolutions just stirring into life.
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Andrea Barrett. The Voyage of the Narwhal
The Voyage of the Narwhal. Andrea Barrett
Table of Contents
Prologue
1 HIS LISTS
2 PAST THE CAVE WHERE THE COLD ARISES
3 A RIOT OF OBJECTS
4 A LITTLE DETOUR
5 THE ICE IN ITS GREAT ABUNDANCE
6 WHO HEARS THE FISHES WHEN THEY CRY?
7 THE GOBLINS KNOWN AS INNERSUIT
8 TOODLAMIK, SKIN AND BONES
9 A BIG STONE SLIPPED FROM HIS GRASP
10 SPECIMENS OF THE NATIVE TRIBES
11 THE NIGHTMARE SKELETON
Author's Note and Acknowledgments
About the Author
Praise
Also by Andrea Barrett
Copyright
About the Publisher
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For Carol Houck Smith
Title Page
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“Possible,” Alexandra said. “Hence you provision for eighteen months?”
“For safety’s sake,” Zeke said. He stroked his eyebrows, taming the springy golden tufts; perhaps aware that Lavinia followed the gesture intently. And perhaps, Erasmus thought, a bit annoyed that Alexandra didn’t. A sensible woman, she seemed immune to Zeke’s charms.
