The Solitude of Thomas Cave, Georgina Harding
The Solitude of Thomas Cave, Georgina Harding
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The Solitude of Thomas Cave

Author: Georgina Harding

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 5 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2007

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

In 1616, an English whaling ship heads for home, leaving behind the quiet, headstrong Thomas Cave, who has bet the rest of the crew that he can spend a winter on this Arctic islandalone. But nothing so threatens the sailor as his own mind, haunted by the remembrances of another life and a lost love.

About Georgina Harding

Georgina Harding is the author of two works of nonfiction, Tranquebar: A Season in South India and In Another Europe. She lives in Colchester, England.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ruth

This novel about survival in the far north & how it affects the rest of Thomas Cave's life is written quite gorgeously. Periodically it includes Thomas's journal entries--& these are no exception, which undercuts the author's occasional assertion that he is a man of action rather than words. If he d......more

Goodreads review by C.C.

I will start with what I loved about this book. I loved the way it was written. The words are measured and flowing and easy. Reading it was no hardship and the prose seems to just take the reader like a stream carrying a leaf, bobbing along easily. It felt as if this book were written decades ago an......more

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