The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Andrea Barrett
• Title: The Voyage of the Narwhal
• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.; First Edition (January 1998)
• Language: English
• Format: Hardcover w/Deckle Edge – 397 pages
• ISBN-10: 039304632X  
• ISBN-13: 9780393046328
• Item Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.7" x 9.7"
• Condition: Used – Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good (Corner clipped on inside front cover, otherwise in excellent condition).
• Edition: First Edition
• Considered a Rare Book Find

Synopsis:

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.

About the Author:

Andrea Barrett was born in Boston, MA in 1954 and grew up on Cape Cod. She studied biology at Union College, in Schenectady, NY and started writing fiction in her twenties, after several brief stints in graduate school. She lived in Rochester, NY for many years, then in western Massachusetts, where she taught at Williams College. She and her husband, photographer Barry Goldstein, now live in the eastern Adirondacks.

She's the author of six novels, most recently THE AIR WE BREATHE, and four collections of stories: SHIP FEVER, which received the 1996 National Book Award, SERVANTS OF THE MAP, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, ARCHANGEL, a finalist for The Story Prize, and, most recently NATURAL HISTORY. Visit her official website at www.andrea-barrett.com.