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"Capturing a crucial moment in the history of exploration the mid nineteenth-century romance with the Arctic, this book focuses on a particular expedition & its accompanying scholar-naturalist, Erasmus Darwin Wells. Through his eyes, we meet the Narwhal's crew & its commander-obsessed with the search for an open polar sea & encounter the far-north culture of the Esquimaux. In counterpoint, we see the women left behind in Philadelphia, explorers only in imagination. Together, those who travel & those who stay weave a web of myth & mystery. And finally they discover-as all explorers do-not what was always there & never needed discovering, but the state of their own souls."@en
"The expedition of the Narwhal as seen through the eyes of Erasmus Darwin Wills, "a scholar-naturalist" on the ship, the Esquimaux who witness "the expedition's exploits," and the women who were left behind in Philadelphia.--"
"Capturing a crucial moment in the history of the mid-nineteenth century romance with Arctic exploration, this book focuses on an expedition and its accompanying scholar-naturalist, Erasmus Darwin Wells. Through his eyes we meet the Narwhal's crew, its commander and the far-north culture of the Esquimaux. In counterpoint, we meet the women left behind in Philadelphia, explorers only in imagination. Together, those who travel and those who stay weave a web of myth and mystery, finally discoving what they had not sought, the secrets of their own hearts."@en
"A story of the great polar expeditions of the nineteenth century."@en
"Part adventure narrative, part love story, this extraordinary chronicle captures a crucial moment in the history of exploration, the mid-19th-century romance with the mystery of the Arctic. Combining fact and fiction, Andrea Barrett focuses on Erasmus Darwin Wells, a scholar-naturalist accompanying the expedition of the Narwhal. Through his eyes we meet the various crew members and the expedition's blustery commander, obsessed with the search for an open polar sea, and we experience the wild, disturbing beauties of that last unexplored region. In counterpoint to his views are those of the Esquimaux, witness to the expedition's exploits, and of the women left behind in Philadelphia, who can only imagine what lies beyond the north wind. Together, those who travel and those who stay weave a web of myth and history. In the real nineteenth-century expeditions, explorers' documents always cast the writer as hero. But what really happened up there, in the long winter darkness, trapped in ice?"
"An expedition by sea to the Arctic in 1885 to search for the explorer, John Franklin. The protagonists are two men from Philadelphia, the dynamic but foolhardy organizer and his companion, a naturalist who considers himself a loser. The loser lives, the dynamo dies. By the author of Ship Fever."
"Als een man na een barre expeditie naar de Noordpool rond 1850 met verlies van veel manschappen terugkeert in Philadelphia, ontdekt hij tot zijn teleurstelling dat anderen hem voor zijn geweest."

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"Fiction"
"Fiction"@en
"Adventure fiction"@en
"Adventure fiction"
"Diary fiction"
"Historical fiction"
"General fiction"
"Electronic books"@en
"Romans (teksten)"
"Belletristische Darstellung"
"Sea stories"

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"Il viaggio del Narwhal : romanzo"
"Il viaggio del Narwhal : romanzo"@it
"The voyage of the Narwhal : a novel"@en
"The voyage of the Narwhal : a novel"
"Jenseits des Nordmeers : Roman"
"Narhvalens rejse"@da
"De reis van de Narwhal"
"The voyage of the "Narwhal""@en
"Voyage of the Narwhal"@en
"The Voyage of the Narwhal"
"El viaje de Narwhal"@es
"The voyage of the Narwhal a novel"
"The voyage of the Narwhal a novel"@en
"El Viaje del Narwhal"
"El viaje del Narwhal"@es
"The voyage of the Narwhal"@en
"The voyage of the Narwhal"

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