The North water
Subtitle: a novel
By: Ian McGuire
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781627795944
Subjects: Whaling; Whaling ships; Fiction
Description: The Volunteer, a nineteenth-century Yorkshire whaling ship, becomes the stage for a confrontation between brutal harpooner Henry Drax and ex-army surgeon Patrick Sumner, the ship's medic, during a violent, ill-fated voyage to the Arctic.
Notes: "First published in the U.K. by Scribner in 2016."