Title: The solitude of Thomas Cave
First published: 2007
Description: It is August 1616, and in the Arctic, the crew of the whaling ship, Heartsease, must return home before the winter ice closes in. All, that is, except Thomas Cave. He makes a wager that he will remain there alone until the next season. So, left with provisions, shelter, and a journal, Cave's lonely contest with the realities of the Arctic winter begins.
Subjects: Fiction, Memory, Solitude, Whalers (Persons), Survival skills, Survival, New York Times reviewed, Arctic regions, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Greenland, fiction
Places: Islands of the Arctic
LC classification: PR6108.A724 S65 2007