Afterlands

Steven Heighton

first published 2005 Vintage Canada, 2006 paperback 416 pages

The retrofitted U.S. Navy tugboat Polaris set out on an expedition for the North Pole in 1872. After getting stuck among ice floes off the coast of Greenland for months, its multinational crew of 25 (plus eight women and children) were separated, with half trapped on the ship and the others trapped on an ice floe onto which they had temporarily decamped. Poet and novelist Heighton (The Shadow Boxer) brilliantly riffs...

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Afterlands edition · 2007 · Mariner Books · 432 pages · 9780618773411
Afterlands paperback · 2006 · Vintage Canada · 416 pages · 9780676976786
Afterlands hardcover · 2006 · Houghton Mifflin · 416 pages · 9780618139347
Afterlands hardcover · 2005 · Knopf Canada · 416 pages

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