Description

In 1871, nineteen men, women, and kids, voyaging on the Arctic traveler USS Polaris identified as their vessel started initially to president themselves cast adrift on an ice floe. Centered on one of the very amazing events in polar background, Afterlands tells the haunting tale of the little culture of castaways -- a white and a black American, five Germans, a Dane, a Swede, an Englishman, and two Inuit households -- and the traumatic 6 months they invest stranded in the Arctic, battling to endure both severe aspects and one another. Rivalries -- complicated by unrequited love, sexual interest, severe starvation, and mistrust -- start to change chaotic, whilst the team splinters into groups along racial and national lines. Steven Heighton's sexy book fills in the blanks of the Polaris's recorded record and examines the shattering mental and emotional effects experienced by people who endure.