The North water
About this book
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
- arctic regions, fiction
- fiction
- fiction, historical
- fiction, historical, general
- fiction, sea stories
- fiction, thrillers
- fiction, thrillers, general
- historical
- literary
- médecins
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2017-01-22
- physicians
- romans, nouvelles
- sea stories
- suspense fiction
- thrillers
- whaling
- whaling ships