Book description
`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. '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.
