The Voyage of the Narwhal - Large Print Author:Andrea Barrett Capturing 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 ... more »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.« less