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The Explorer's Daughter

by Kari Herbert (b. 1970)

Herbert watches Inuit hunters pursue narwhal in the Arctic and reflects on the tension between her instinctive sympathy for the whales and the community's need to hunt to survive.

NatureTraditionSurvivalMoral conflict

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Rights notice: © Kari Herbert 2004, reproduced in the anthology by permission of Aitken Alexander Associates. Quotations are short fair-dealing extracts under CDPA 1988 §30 (criticism, review, quotation). For full text, students should consult the anthology (ISBN 978-1-446-93108-0), which Pearson publishes free as a PDF.

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Source: Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Anthology, Issue 8, February 2026 (read 2026-09-19).

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