- Whaling, Whaling ships, Fiction, Fiction, historical
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.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and bleak.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Ian McGuire
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Holt & Company, Henry, Simon & Schuster, Limited, 10/18
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English, French, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9781627795951
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