![]() ![]() He is a bereaved widower and seeks out silence and loneliness to be with his grief and despair. As the reader soon grasps, there are reasons apart from monetary gain why Cave has taken up the challenge. The long months of utter isolation and privation are recorded in his journal and by the author as narrator. Cave accepts a wager that he would be able to survive an Arctic winter alone and is left behind by his ship with provisions and shelter as the summer conditions begin to give way to the icy temperatures of winter. ![]() Thomas Cave is a whaler on Arctic expeditions collecting whale oil and associated products, which in the early 1600s was a highly hazardous though lucrative occupation. Set in the first half of the 17th century, this is a poetic and highly literate novel that has as its themes the nature of mankind and our impact on the environment. ![]()
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