Helen is not entirely sure she is looking forward to spending the next six months on board the karluk, a ship headed on an arctic expedition. But with the recent death of her father, it is the only work her seamstress mo...Helen is not entirely sure she is looking forward to spending the next six months on board the karluk, a ship headed on an arctic expedition. But with the recent death of her father, it is the only work her seamstress mother can find.