Title:
The voyage of the Narwhal
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ISBN:
9780788734311
Edition:
Unabridged.
Publication Information:
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p1999.
Physical Description:
9 compact discs (13 hr. 15 min.) : analog.
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Summary:
Capturing a crucial moment in the history of the mid-nineteenth century romance with Arctic exploration, this book focuses on an expedition and its accompanying scholar-naturalist, Erasmus Darwin Wells. Through his eyes we meet 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 discoving what they had not sought, the secrets of their own hearts.
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