THE LAST WHALER follows Tor Handeland, a beluga whaler, and his wife, Astrid, a botanist specializing in Arctic flora, stranded during the winter of 1937-38 at his remote whaling station on Svalbard. The couple must cope with the dangers of violent storms. bitter cold, and polar bears in a fight for survival. The novel is a meditation on the resilience of the human spirit, the abiding power of love and remembrance, and the fragile threads that connect us to each other and to our environment.
- Rights Contact
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Jaynie Royal
<jaynieroyal@regalhousepublishing.com>
- Award(s)
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Foreword Reviews' Book of the Day 9/13/24 and a Best Book of 2024 by Independent Book Review; Hungry for Good Books; and Reading Group Choices;
- Rights Sold (Countries)
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Canada and USA
- Book Website
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https://regal-house-publishing.mybigcommerce.com/the-last-whaler/
- Contributor(s)
- Cynthia Reeves
- Publisher
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Regal House Publishing
- ISBN-13
- 978-1-64603-508-3
- Publication Date
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Sep 3, 2024
- Pages
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326
- Price
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$20.95
- Tags
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#historical
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#fiction
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Our Review
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A whaler and his wife experience a tragedy and new beginnings in Cynthia Reeves’s poignant historical novel "The Last Whaler". Tor loves whaling. Each summer, he leaves his family in Norway and sails to icy Svalbard to hunt. But Tor’s wife, Astrid, is haunted by the loss of their son, Birk,...
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