The Last Whaler Bâtiment Man of the Mountain

Man of the Mountain

the rhythms of the natural world went on

the novel is “[t]he literary equivalent of an open wound from which poetry pours” (NPR)

Carla Carter knows she’s finally found the one

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The Last Whaler Bâtiment Man of the MountainTHE LAST WHALER is an elegiac meditation on the will to survive under extreme conditions. Tor, a beluga whaler, and his wife, Astrid, a botanist specializing in Arctic flora, are stranded during the dark season of 1937 38 at his remote whaling station when they misjudge ice conditions and fail to rendezvous with the ship meant to carry them back to their home in southern Norway. Beyond enduring the Arctic winter s twenty four hour night, the couple