num_pages: 400
description: `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.
language: English
title: The Voyage of the Narwhal
titlecomplete: The Voyage of the Narwhal
genres: Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Travel, Novels, Adult Fiction, Literature, Adventure, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 3251
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist
publisher: Flamingo