Author: David Hewson
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1838853774
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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A remote island. An isolated community. A terrible secret. If the new District Sheriff, Tristan Haraldsen, thought moving to a remote village on the island of Vagar would be the chance for a peaceful life with his wife Elsebeth, his first few weeks in office swiftly correct him of that notion. Provoked into taking part in the village’s whale hunt against his will, Haraldsen blunders badly, and in the ensuing chaos two local boys go missing. Blaming himself, Haraldsen dives into the investigation and soon learns that the boys are not the first to have gone missing on Vagar. As Tristan and Elsebeth become increasingly ensnared by the island’s past, they realise its wild beauty hides an altogether uglier and sinister truth.
Author: David Hewson
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ISBN: 9781004005291
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 441
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New-appointed District Sheriff Tristan Haraldsen and his wife Elsebeth are looking forward to the peaceful semi-retirement in the remote fishing village of Djevulsfjord on the stunningly beautiful island of Vagar. But when two boys go missing during the first whale hunt of the season, the repercussions strike at the heart of the isolated coastal community. As he pursues his investigations, Tristan discovers that the Mikkelsen brothers aren't the first young men to have vanished on Vagar. Determined to solve the mystery of Djevulsfjord, yet encountering suspicion wherever he turns, Haraldsen comes to realise he and his wife are not living in the rural paradise they had imagined, and that the wild beauty of the region hides a far darker reality.
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Category : Marine service
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Author: Jane Smiley
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307788040
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 609
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres—and "a diverse and masterly writer” (The New York Times Book Review)—comes an enthralling epic tale, written in the tradition of the old Norse sagas, that takes us to fourteenth-century Greenland and tells the story of a proud landowner and his unforgettable family. Jane Smiley brings us to a farflung place of glittering fjords, blasting winds, sun-warmed meadows, and high, dark mountains. This is the story of one family: proud landowner Asgeir Gunnarsson; his daughter Margret, whose willful independence leads her into passionate adultery and exile; and his son Gunnar, whose quest for knowledge is at the compelling center of this unforgettable book. Jane Smiley immerses us in this world of farmers, priests, and lawspeakers, of hunts and feasts and long-standing feuds, and by an act of literary magic, makes a remote time, place, and people not only real but dear to us.
Author: Charles M. Heyda
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 271
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Author: Norske videnskaps-akademi i Oslo
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Publisher: Nám
ISBN: 9780907715221
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Category : Geophysics
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Mainly palaeontology, biology and meteorology in the Canadian Arctic.
