The Ice Master: A Novel of the Arctic - Tapa blanda

Houston, James A.

 
9780771042096: The Ice Master: A Novel of the Arctic
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ISBN 10: 0771042094 ISBN 13: 9780771042096
Editorial: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1999

Sinopsis

Two whaling ship captains, a brash Yankee and a young Newfoundlander, clash during their year-long stay among the Inuit of Baffin Island hunting for whales

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<b>James Houston</b>, a Canadian author-artist, served with the Toronto Scottish Regiment in World War II, 1940-45, then lived among the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic for twelve years as a Northern Service Officer, and the first Administrator of west Baffin Island, a territory of 65,000 square miles. Widely acknowledged as the prime force in the development of Inuit art, he is past chairman of both the American Indian Arts Centre and the Association on American Indian and Eskimo Cultural Foundation Award, the 1979 Inuit Kuavati Award of Merit, and the 1997 Royal Geographic Society’s Massey Medal, and is an officer of the Order of Canada.<br><br>Among his writings, <i>The White Dawn</i> has been published in thirty-one editions worldwide. That novel and <i>Ghost Fox</i>, <i>Spirit Wrestler</i>,

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whaling was North America’s biggest business. Successful voyages south, to the warm waters of Melville’s great white whale, or north, to the Arctic, brought back ships laden with the whale oil that lit the lamps of the civilized world and the whalebone that stiffened its corsets. Many of the fortune seekers in this harsh trade lost their lives, while others became millionaires.<br><br>In James Houston’s exciting new adventure novel it is the spring of 1875. Two ships set sail from Connecticut, traveling north together to the Baffin Island Arctic whaling grounds.<br><br>One ship is captained by a hard-as-nails Yankee veteran, a man who knows how to deal with mutineers. The other falls to the command of a young Newfoundlander, an expert at sailing through ice fields in a wooden hull – an “Ice Master” – but inexperienced in the specialized, bloody trade of Arctic whaling. Fierce conflicts arise between the two men as they struggle for control during

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Editorial
McClelland & Stewart Ltd
Año de publicación
1999
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0771042094
ISBN 13 
9780771042096
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
372
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ISBN 10:  0771042078 ISBN 13:  9780771042072
Editorial: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1997
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