A distant harbour
By: by Jessica Blair
Publisher: Piatkus
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780751545319
Subjects: Ship captains; Fiction; Whaling; History; Marine accidents; Bereavement; Wives; Death; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: Captain David Fernley has made and lost a fortune in the whaling trade, fishing the frozen Arctic wastes from the Yorkshire port of Whitby. Then his erring wife and best friend die in an accident at sea. David's self-destructive need to seek revenge consumes him in a story that sweeps through Whitby, the Arctic, London, Nova Scotia and the Pacific, as David follows the only life he knows - whaling.