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The North water : a novel / Ian McGuire.
Van Pelt Library PR6113.C4832 N67 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGuire, Ian, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whaling--Fiction.
- Whaling.
- Whaling ships--Fiction.
- Whaling ships.
- Arctic regions--Fiction.
- Arctic regions.
- Arctic Regions.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Sea fiction.
- Suspense fiction.
- Sea stories.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2016.
- Summary:
- 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."
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781627795944
- 1627795944
- OCLC:
- 912140701
- Publisher Number:
- 99967034051
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