Cover of The North water

The North water

by Ian McGuire

2016 500 pages eng ★ 4.0 (6 ratings)

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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