Matthew Adams

Two men in a boat | 25 February 2016

Ian McGuire tells a thrilling story of dirty tricks and deadly rivalry on a Victorian whaling vessel bound for the Arctic

  • The North Water

    Ian McGuire

    Scribner, pp. 326

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