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The North Water

Ian McGuire

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.

Themes
Dark & BroodingGrimdarkThrilling & PropulsiveStrange & UnsettlingCivilization's fragile veneerPredatory human natureIsolation as a crucibleSurvival against the void
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