Afterlands

Name: Afterlands
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ISBN: 9780618773411

ISBN-10: 061877341X

ISBN-13: 9780618773411

Edition: 2005

Authors: Steven Heighton

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In 1871, nineteen men, women, and children, voyaging on the Arcticexplorer USS Polaris found themselves cast adrift on an ice floe as their ship began to founder. Based on one of the most remarkable events in polar history, Afterlands tells the haunting story of this small society of castaways -- a white and a black American, five Germans, a Dane, a Swede, an Englishman, and two Inuit families -- and the harrowing six months they spend marooned in the Arctic, struggling to survive both the harsh elements and one another. As the group splinters into factions along ethnic and national lines, rivalries -- complicated by sexual desire, unrequited love, extreme hunger, and suspicion -- begin to…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 2/5/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.858

STEVEN HEIGHTON is the internationally acclaimed author of the novels Afterlands and The Shadow Boxer, a Mariner Original that was selected as a Publishers Weekly Book of the Year. He has also written several books of poetry, short fiction, and essays. His work has received numerous awards and has been translated into nine languages.



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