The Voyage of the Narwhal

`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.