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The north water: Ian McGuire.

The north water: Ian McGuire.
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War & Sea Stories Fiction   Taree . Available .  
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War & Sea Stories Fiction   Gloucester . Available .  
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ISBN 9781471151255
Shelf Location F/MCG
Author McGuire, Ian
Title The north water / Ian McGuire.
Publication Details London:
©2016 Scribner,
Collation 326 pages : 24 cm ;
Abstract/Summary A 19th-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp and highly original tale that grips like a thriller. Behold the man: stinking, drunk, brutal and bloodthirsty, Henry Drax is a harpooner on the Volunteer, a Yorkshire whaling ship bound for the hunting waters of the Arctic Circle. Also aboard for the first time is Patrick Sumner, an ex-army surgeon with a shattered reputation, no money and no better option than to embark as ship's medic on this violent, filthy, ill-fated voyage. In India during the Siege of Delhi, Sumner thought he had experienced the depths to which a man can stoop and imagined he'd find respite on the Volunteer, but now, trapped in the wooden belly of the ship with Drax, he encounters pure evil and is forced to act. As the true purposes of the expedition become clear, the confrontation between the two men plays out in the freezing darkness of an Arctic winter.
Subject Sea stories -- Fiction
Historical -- Fiction
Whaling -- Arctic regions -- Fiction
Man Booker Award longlist 2016
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