This is the first volume of William Golding\'s Sea Trilogy.
Then a single passenger, the obsequious Reverend Colley, attracts the animosity of the sailors, and in the seclusion of t.
Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, sinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks.
Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England.
This is the first volume of William Golding\'s Sea Trilogy