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conversations.value: a plot for a book about Volunteer, North, Water entitled The North Water. Start with the sentence 'The North Water: The north water of the title is where ships sail to in the hunt to harvest whales'.
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conversations.value: The North Water: The north water of the title is where ships sail to in the hunt to harvest whales.\nThe novel opens in Hull where the industry is under threat with paraffin and coal oil replacing whale oil.\nWe meet Henry Drax a harpooner who rapes and kills a child, ".\na brute, a vacuum into which men and boys are sucked and do not emerge alive" Joining as ships doctor is Irishman Patrick Sumner a disgraced former British army surgeon with a murky past in India.\nThey set sail on the Volunteer under Captain Brownlee who lost his last ship and crew and in league with the owner Baxter intends to scuttle the Volunteer in an insurance scam.