The Voyage of the Narwhal (Text Only)

The Voyage of the Narwhal (Text Only) PDF Author: Andrea Barrett
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 000740428X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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`A great, shivery, seductive read.’ Elle

The Voyage of the Narwhal (Text Only)

The Voyage of the Narwhal (Text Only) PDF Author: Andrea Barrett
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 000740428X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Book Description
`A great, shivery, seductive read.’ Elle

Voyage of the Narwhal: A Novel

Voyage of the Narwhal: A Novel PDF Author: Andrea Barrett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393347214
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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"A luminous work of historical fiction that explores the far reaches of the Arctic and of men's souls." —Denver Post Capturing a crucial moment in the history of exploration—the mid-nineteenth century romance with the Arctic—Andrea Barrett's compelling novel tells the story of a fateful expedition. Through the eyes of the ship's scholar-naturalist, Erasmus Darwin Wells, we encounter the Narwhal's crew, its commander, and the far-north culture of the Esquimaux. In counterpoint, we meet the women left behind in Philadelphia, explorers only in imagination. Together, those who travel and those who stay weave a web of myth and mystery, finally discovering what they had not sought, the secrets of their own hearts.

Oceanology

Oceanology PDF Author: Emily Hawkins
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763642908
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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Purports to be the journal of Zoticus de Lesseps, written on an ill-fated 1863 voyage accompanying Captain Nemo to explore the mysteries of the deep sea.

Servants of the Map: Stories

Servants of the Map: Stories PDF Author: Andrea Barrett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393323579
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 297

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Spanning two centuries, an intricately woven collection of stories and novellas journeys across landscapes of yearning, awakening, loss, and unexpected discovery as the lives of extraordinary characters unfold in a borderland between science and passion.

Lucid Stars

Lucid Stars PDF Author: Andrea Barrett
Publisher: Delta
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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From the 1996 National Book Award-winning author of "Ship Fever and Other Stories". What begins as a classic boy-meets-girl tale in 1955 becomes something far different when marriage and two children do not bring a family closer together. "Lucid Stars" is the moving story of how one family learns to survive by becoming a planetary system that just happens to be missing its sun.

Secret Harmonies

Secret Harmonies PDF Author: Andrea Barrett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671731378
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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When childhood sweethearts Reba Dwyer and Luke Wyatt marry, they expect no surprises. But now that Luke is her husband, discord enters their lives. Secret Harmonies is utterly absorbing, moving story of what happens to this couple.

Middle Kingdom

Middle Kingdom PDF Author: Andrea Barrett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671729616
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Barrett's two previous novels won her comparisons to Gail Godwin and Anne Tyler. The Middle Kingdom--now available in trade paper--is the story of a dutiful wife in an unhappy marriage who accompanies her husband on a business trip to China. But once there she falls out of love with her husband and into love with the country and its culture.

The Air We Breathe: A Novel

The Air We Breathe: A Novel PDF Author: Andrea Barrett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393067289
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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"Turbulent and dramatic, full of longing and death and lust, the yearning to cover one’s own life and way in the world." —David Mehegan, Boston Globe An elegant and astute tale of desire and betrayal, science and medicine, from the "genius enchantress" (Karen Russell) author of Ship Fever, winner of the National Book Award. In the fall of 1916, America prepares for war—but in the town of Tamarack Lake, the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium. From within their isolated community, they grapple with some of the most thrilling scientific discoveries of their time—X-ray technology, chemical and biological weapons, changing theories of atomic structure—and their limitations. Prisoners of routine, they take solace in gossip, rumor, and, sometimes, secret attachments. When the well-meaning efforts of one enterprising patient lead instead to a tragic accident and a terrible betrayal, the war comes home, bringing with it a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice. With The Air We Breathe, Andrea Barrett has crafted a "majestic, breathtaking, [and] thrilling" (San Diego Union-Tribune) novel that brilliantly illuminates the inescapable heartbreak of war.

Swallowed by the Great Land

Swallowed by the Great Land PDF Author: Seth Kantner
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 1594859698
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 163

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CLICK HERE to download a free sample from Swallowed by the Great Land “Seth Kantner illuminates an Alaska most of us will never know.” –Andrea Barrett, author of Ship Fever and The Voyage of the Narwhal • Nonfiction short stories that pull you into the lives of those living in an otherworldly place • Seth Kantner received a Whiting Award naming him one of the nation's top-ten emerging writers • Publisher’s Weekly called the author’s 2004 debut novel, Ordinary Wolves, "a tour de force" When Seth Kantner’s novel, Ordinary Wolves, was published 10 years ago, it was a literary revelation of sorts. In a raw, stylized voice it told the story of a white boy growing up with homesteading parents in Arctic Alaska and trying to reconcile his largely subsistence and Native-style upbringing with the expectations and realities tied to his race. It hit numerous bestseller lists, was critically acclaimed, and won a number of awards. Seth’s nonfiction second book, the memoir Shopping for Porcupine, was even more compelling for many readers—the same raw details of a homesteading upbringing, but intensely personal. Now, in Swallowed by the Great Land, he once again brings us into his lyrical wilderness existence. Swallowed by the Great Land features slice-of-life essays that further reveal the duality in the author’s own life today, and also in the village and community that he inhabits—a mosaic of all life on the tundra. Unique characters, village life, wilderness and the larger landscape, a warming Arctic, and hunting and other aspects of subsistence living are all explored in varied yet intimate stories.

Ship Fever

Ship Fever PDF Author: Andrea Barrett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393316009
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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Book Description
1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.