Category: Historical Fiction Publisher: August Words
ISBN-10: 1942018126
Type: Fiction
Pages: 345
Copyright: November 2016
ISBN-13: 9781942018124
Price: $6.37 (eBook)
The icy world of Captain Henry Hudson, doomed 17th century Arctic explorer, comes alive through the eyes of a young mathematician - sailor.
Narrated by Thomas Woodhouse, a young mathematician and sailor, we meet his English family and a lady friend. Thomas discusses the important events in early 17th century England; he takes us with him to Oxford University and he shares hs growing passion for the Arctic.
Signed on board Henry Hudson's expedition ship Discovery for a voyage to find the North-West Passage, Thomas works with a disparate crew and experiences the erratic mind of their commander. Discovery'screw mutiny and cast their captain and a few loyal followers adrift, including Thomas. The only survivor of a storm that takes the lives of his fellow sailors, Thomas lives for the next two and a half decades with a native tribe of hunter-gatherers on the shores of James Bay, where he meets the love of his life.
Consumed by curiosity about the fate of the mutineers in his later life, Thomas returns to England to find disappointing results -- and the arms of his first love. Thomas's adventurous story ranges across southern England, the Atlantic, sub-Arctic, the wilderness forests of eastern Canada and part of old France.
Professional Reviews
The Mathematician's Journey
Anthony Dalton is himself no stranger to the Arctic or sailing.He brings that knowledge to bear in his meticulously researched historical novel to take the reader on a voyage of discovery from the peaceful cloisters of Oxford...to the Atlantic wastes and the frigid waters of what will become known as Hudson Bay thence to a native village and finally, after many years, back to upper class London. Peopled with three-dimensional characters set against vividly described backgrounds the plot will keep you turning the pages and at book's end hoping the hero's adventures will continue in another work. Patrick Taylor -- New York Times best-selling author of the "Irish Country Doctor" series.
Whatever happened to Henry Hudson?
Told from the viewpoint of one of Henry's crew, this deeply satisfying, richly textured adventure story sweeps with confidence from the old world to the new and back again.There are pikestaffs and politics, then mutiny, survival and respect in our hero's adopted tribe, and finally a man who could not live in England. Once again Dalton's genius is in the details. Once agan, I couldn't stop reading. Catherine Dook, nautical author of "Offshore" and more.
The Mathematician's Journey
Thomas Woodhouse, a 17th century mathematician by training and a gentleman by birth, longs for adventure. Rejecting his family's wishes and the love of a good woman, he crews on Henry Hudson's ship and begins a peril-filled journey that takes him across the seas, into the far North and a life he could never have imagined. In this rollicking adventure story, author Anthony Dalton's gentleman adventurer faces perils from shipwrecks to starvation and from romantic rivalry to redemption in his quest to stay true to the spirit of his secret raven tattoo. kc dyer, author of "Finding Fraser" and more.
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