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Book Review of Winter of the White Seal

Winter of the White Seal
Winter of the White Seal
Author: Marie Herbert
Book Type: Paperback
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A novel, set in the South Shetland, and the center of a thriving but punishing environmental sealing industry. The Seal slaughter saga is set in form, of a journal of young Jonathan Horn, stranded in the Antartic from a sealing expedition early in the 19th century.

In 1819, young Jonathan Horn becomes stranded in the Antarctic during a sealing expedition and adopts a young orphaned white seal as his sole companion