272 pages
English language
Published 2017 by Picador.
North Water
by Ian McGuire
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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.
Subjects
- Fiction, thrillers
- Fiction, historical
- Fiction, sea stories
- Arctic regions, fiction