North sun, or, The voyage of the whaleship Esther : a novel / Ethan Rutherford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rutherford, Ethan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whaling ships--Fiction.

Whaling ships.

Whaling--Fiction.

Whaling.

Genre:

Sea fiction.

Action and adventure fiction.

Ecofiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

x, 387 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Voyage of the whaleship Esther

Place of Publication:

Dallas, Texas : Deep Vellum ; Austin, Texas : /A Strange Object, 2025.

Summary:

"Setting out from New Bedford in 1878, the crew of the Esther is confident the sea will be theirs: in addition to cruising the Pacific for whale, they intend to hunt the teeming northern grounds before the ice closes. But as they sail to their final destination in the Chukchi Sea, where their captain Arnold Lovejoy has an urgent directive of his own to attend to, their encounters with the natural world become more brutal, harrowing, ghostly, and strange. With one foot firmly planted in the traditional sea-voyage narrative, and another in a blazing mythos of its own, this debut novel looks unsparingly at the cost of environmental exploitation and predation, and in doing so feverishly sings not only of the past, but to the present and future as well"-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version: Rutherford, Ethan. North sun, or, The voyage of the whaleship Esther

ISBN:

9781646053582

1646053583

OCLC:

1425804624

Publisher Number:

90101671346