Lose yourself in an epic naval journey in this Booker Prize-winning novel: the second in the acclaimed Sea Trilogy by the author of Lord of the Flies. Read by the author in 1989, this recording was re-mastered in 2022.
This tropical nowhere was the whole world - the whole imaginable world.
A decrepit warship is becalmed halfway to Australia, stilled in an ocean wilderness of heat and sea mists. In this surreal, fête-like atmosphere, a ball is held with a passing ship: the passengers dance and flirt, while beneath them seaweed like green hair spreads omniously over the hull. Half-mad with fear, drink, love and opium, both vessel and passengers feel themselves going to pieces: and the very planks seem to twist themselves alive as the ship comes apart at the seams . . .
& apos; No living writer has represented the fragility of man& apos; s experience so marvellously as Golding. & apos; AS Byatt
& apos; It is in Golding& apos; s magnificent, therapeutic, terrifying descriptions of seascapes that the deepest meanings can be found. & apos; Kate Mosse
& apos; Stunning . . . As exciting as any thriller. & apos; Sunday Times
& apos; A feat of imaginative reconstruction, as vivid as a dream. & apos; Daily Mail
& apos; Tells an utterly absorbing tale, in language of immense force and subtlety. & apos; Financial Times
To The Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy - Book Two
