Detailed annotations for 'Explorers daughter' by Kari Herbert, a non-fiction text GCSE students will need to know for questions 4 & 5 for their English language exam at the end of year 11. These annotations go through the whole text and point out which quotations would be best to use for Question 4...
Two hours after the last of the hunters had returned and eaten, narwhal were spotted again, this time
very close. Within an hour even those of us on shore could with the naked eye see the plumes of spray
from the narwhal catching the light in a spectral play of colour. Two large pods of narwhal circled in the
fjord, often looking as if they were going to merge, but always slowly, methodically passing each other
by. Scrambling back up to the lookout I looked across the glittering kingdom in front of me and took a
sharp intake of breath. The hunters were dotted all around the fjord. The evening light was turning
butter-gold, glinting off man and whale and catching the soft billows of smoke from a lone hunter’s pipe.
From where we sat at the lookout it looked as though the hunters were close enough to touch the
narwhal with their bare hands and yet they never moved. Distances are always deceptive in the Arctic,
and I fell to wondering if the narwhal existed at all or were instead mischievous tricks of the shifting
light. ...
, The narwhal rarely stray from High Arctic waters, escaping only to the slightly
more temperate waters towards the Arctic Circle in the dead of winter, but
never entering the warmer southern seas. In summer the hunters of Thule are
fortunate to witness the annual return of the narwhal to the Inglefield Fjord, on
the side of which we now sat.
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