The Voyage of the Narwhal
  • Published:
    Sep-1998 (Hardcover)
    Mar-1999 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Action Adventure
  • Time Period:
    19th Century
  • Pages:
    399
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"A glistening narrative, crammed full of rich, pictorial description and tingling suspense." -- Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Book Review


An intoxicating story of the thrills of exploration, the fallacy of discovery, and the inevitable costs of ambition from the "genius enchantress" (Karen Russell) author of Ship Fever, winner of the National Book Award.

The Narwhal has a simple mission: to find the remains -- human and material -- of a disappeared ship. But its rash and obsessive young commander, Zeke Voorhees, has ulterior motives that may spell doom for the Narwhal and its crew. His soon-to-be brother-in-law, scholar-naturalist Erasmus Darwin Wells, may be the only one aboard who can alter their fate. Back in Philadelphia, the women left behind make journeys of the imagination as they await the Narwhal's return. Wielding her signature lyrical and precise style, Andrea Barrett unravels the mid-nineteenth-century American romance with the Arctic in a "genuine page turner that long lingers in the mind" (Philip Graham, Chicago Tribune).
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    •  
    • Mar-1999
    • W.W. Norton & Company
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0393102696
    • ISBN13: 9780393102697
    •  
    • Sep-1999
    • W.W. Norton & Company
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0393319504
    • ISBN13: 9780393319507
    •  
    • Mar-2000
    • HarperCollins
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0006551416
    • ISBN13: 9780006551416
    •  
    • Sep-2023
    • W.W. Norton & Company
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1324065974
    • ISBN13: 9781324065975
    • First Edition
    • Sep-1998
    • W.W. Norton & Company
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 039304632X
    • ISBN13: 9780393046328
    •  
    • Sep-1999
    • Fourth Estate (UK)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 000740428X
    • ISBN13: 9780007404285
    •  
    • Sep-1999
    • W.W. Norton & Company
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Mar-2013
    • Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0393347214
    • ISBN13: 9780393347210
    •  
    • Oct-1999
    • Random House Audio
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 0375407863
    • ISBN13: 9780375407864
    •  
    • Jul-2012
    • Random House Audio
    • audible.com (abridged)
    •  
    • Mar-1999
    • Thorndike Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0786217510
    • ISBN13: 9780786217519
    • Large Print
    •  
    • Jan-2000
    • MacMillan
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0786217529
    • ISBN13: 9780786217526
    • Large Print



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