The Voyage of the Narwhal

"A glistening narrative, crammed full of rich, pictorial description and tingling suspense." —Michiko Kakutani,  New York Times Book Review An intoxicating story of the thrills of exploration, the fallacy of discovery, and the inevitable costs of ambition from the "genius enchantress" (Karen Russell) author of Ship Fever , winner of the National Book Award. The Narwhal has a simple mission: to find the remains—human and material—of a disappeared ship. But its rash and obsessive young comman