Description
Over a century before Columbus will venture across the Atlantic Ocean, a storm-battered Basque whaling ship drops anchor off the eastern coast in North America. In this savagely beautiful new land, harpooner Kepa de Mendieta becomes the victim of a terrible accident. When his ship returns to Spain he is left behind, seemingly forsaken. With winter approaching, Kepa struggles against the brutal forces of humanity and nature in a fight for survival as well as redemption. The third in Christine Echeverria Bender's trilogy of historical novels focusing on the seldom told history of the Basque sailors of Spain. Her accessible writing style and painstaking research have worked in tandem to create a series that is both entertaining and enlightening.
