by Barrett (Author)
'A great, shivery, seductive read.' Elle Intelligent, accessible literary fiction of the highest order. Superbly dramatic and beautifully readable. A terrific tale of high endeavour and polar peril, this is the story of a scientific expedition to the Arctic in 1855 and the women the explorers left behind. A brilliant portrait of Victorian society obsessed with mapping and classifying everything under the sun - including the icy Arctic - where the emancipation of women and the evolution of species are the next great revolutions just stirring into life.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: Flamingo
Published: 06 Mar 2000
ISBN 10: 0006551416
ISBN 13: 9780006551416
`The clarity and depth of the story dazzle'
The Times
`Enthralling, rivetingly authentic'
Literary Review
`Crammed full of rich, pictorial description and tingling suspense.'
New York Times
`Among the most emotionally wrenching, subtle works of the century'
amazon.com
Andrea Barrett lives in upstate New York. Her previous book, Ship Fever, a collection of short stories, won the US National Book Award in 1996, and was published in Flamingo in December 1999.