num_pages: 378
description: This sweeping story is set aboard the Morning Light a Nova Scotian merchant ship sailing through the South Pacific in 1912.Kay and Thea are half-sisters separated in age by almost twenty years but deeply attached. When their stern father dies Thea travels to Nova Scotia for her long-promised marriage to the captain of the Morning Light. But she cannot abandon her orphaned young sister so Kay too embarks on a life-changing journey to the other side of the world.Inspired by a true story Marina Endicott shows us a now-vanished world in all its wonder and in its darkness prejudice and difficulty too. She also brilliantly illuminates our present time through Kays examination of the idea of differencebetween people classes continents cultures customs and species.
language: English
title: The Voyage of the Morning Light
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company