{"product_id":"voyage-of-the-narwhal-a-novelbooks","title":"Voyage Of The Narwhal A Novel","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom the author of the 1996 National Book Award Winner\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShip Fever\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCapturing a crucial moment in the history of exploration, the mid-nineteenth century romance with the Arctic, Andrea Barrett focuses on a particular expedition and its accompanying scholar-naturalist, Erasmus Darwin Wells. Through his eyes, we meet the Narwhal's crew and its commander—obsessed with the search for an open polar sea—and encounter the far-north culture of the Esquimaux. In counterpoint, we see the women left behind in Philadelphia, explorers only in imagination. Together, those who travel and those who stay weave a web of myth and mystery. And finally they discover—as all explorers do—not what was always there and never needed discovering, but the state of their own souls.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Barrett, Andrea","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":43592773927136,"sku":"","price":20.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/products\/19497061.jpg?v=1666722129","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/voyage-of-the-narwhal-a-novelbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}