Author | : Nicholas Monsarrat |
Publisher | : House of Stratus |
Total Pages | : 833 |
Release | : 2012-05-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0755131630 |
This is Monsarrat's masterpiece, an epic tale of the sea and seafaring from the sixteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Mathew Lawe, a young sailor, is cursed after a spectacular act of cowardice to wander 'the wild waters till all the seas run dry', it is historical fiction beset by real events.