Everything you need to understand or teach North Sun by Ethan Rutherford .
Ethan Rutherford’s novel North Sun, or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther is a historical sea adventure and ecofiction narrative told in a close third person that mostly follows whaling captain Arnold Lovejoy, two unnamed ship’s boys, and Sarah Ashley, the daughter of a New Bedford whaling dynasty. Set in the late nineteenth century as the whale oil industry declines, the novel traces the Esther’s voyage from New Bedford to the Arctic ice, where commerce, superstition, and the supernatural collide. As Lovejoy accepts a desperate commission to rescue the missing captain of a crushed whaleship and recover a mysterious golden egg, the crew confronts deadly ice, brutal labor, a monstrous bird being called Old Sorrel, and the enigmatic company man Edmund Thule. Themes include the human and ecological costs of whaling, complicity and guilt, class and power, the pull of home, and the thin line between the monstrous and the humane.
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