Cover of The North Water

The North Water

by Ian McGuire

Publication
First published 2016
ISBNs
9781627795951, 9781627795944, 9781471151279

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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.

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