num_pages: 322
description: Recently canned professor of American literature Chris Jaynes has just made a startling discovery: the manuscript of a crude slave narrative that confirms the reality of Edgar Allan Poes strange and only novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Determined to seek out Tsalal the remote island of pure and utter blackness that Poe describes Jaynes convenes an all-black crew of six to follow Pyms trail to the South Pole armed with little but the firsthand account from which Poe derived his seafaring tale a bag of bones and a stash of Little Debbie snack cakes. Thus begins an epic journey by an unlikely band of adventurers under the permafrost of Antarctica beneath the surface of American history and behind one of literatures great mysteries.
language: English
title: Pym
publisher: Spiegel & Grau