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The North water a novel

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.

Main Author:	McGuire, Ian.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2016.
Edition:	First U.S. edition.
Subjects:	Zug, Roy tribute. Whaling > Fiction. Whaling ships > Fiction. Arctic regions > Fiction. Thrillers (Fiction) Sea fiction.

Summary:	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.
Item Description:	"First published in the U.K. by Scribner in 2016."
Physical Description:	255 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN:	9781627795944 (hardcover) 1627795944 (hardcover)
Author Notes:	Ian McGuire grew up near Hull, England, and studied at the University of Manchester and the University of Virginia in the United States. He is the cofounder and codirector of the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing. He writes criticism and fiction, and his stories have been published in Chicago Review , The Paris Review , and elsewhere. He is the author of The North Water, among other books.

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