Ian McGuire · 2016 · sea

Ian McGuire's 2016 novel. The disgraced army surgeon Patrick Sumner signs aboard the whaling ship Volunteer sailing from Hull to the Arctic, unaware that a murderous harpooner and a doomed insurance scheme sail with him. Amid the ice of Baffin Bay the voyage descends into violence and survival, Sumner stranded on the frozen edge of the world in a brutal fight to live.

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   Hull

   The Yorkshire whaling port from which the surgeon Sumner, fleeing disgrace in India, ships aboard the Volunteer, not knowing the voyage is meant to end in deliberate wreck and worse.

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   Baffin Bay

   The Arctic whaling grounds off Greenland and Baffin Island where the hunt turns deadly, the ship is lost to the ice, and Sumner must survive both the cold and the killer among the crew.