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National Book Award-winner Andrea Barrett deftly blends fact and fiction to create this magnificent epic of Victorian polar exploration. An amazing wealth of period detail, heart-racing action, and engaging characters enable you to fully experience the 19th-century‘s romance with the mystery of the Arctic. In hope of making his reputation, scholar-naturalist Erasmus Darwin Wells embarks on a perilous expedition to the North Pole.

In the fall of 1916, Americans debate whether to enter the European war. "Preparedness parades" march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium. For all, time stands still.

The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they encompass both past and present as they negotiate the complex territory of ambition, failure, achievement, and shattered dreams.

Århundreder efter opdagelsen af den nye verden, var det meste af klodens isdækkede områder stadig ikke kortlagt. Med håb om prestige og økonomisk gevinst drager en ekspedition i 1800-tallet ombord på skibet "Narhvalen" mod Arktis uden begreb om de udfordringer, der venter dem undervejs. Både passagerernes mentale og fysiske helbred udfordres på den farefulde rejse, hvor menneskets mest grundlæggende træk kommer op til overfladen. Andrea Barrett (f. 1954) er en prisvindende amerikansk forfatter.

In this thoughtful collection of essays, Andrea Barrett draws from her experiences writing some of the most acclaimed historical fiction of our time to explore the mysteries and delights of the genre. Inspiration found in the past, she argues, can illuminate fiction, just as dust scatters light and makes the unseen visible.