From Nobel Laureate William Golding's (Lord of the Flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the story of an ambitious British aristocrat, humbled by the lives of his fellow passengers, as he embarks on an ocean voyage for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government.
From Nobel Laureate William Golding's (Lord of the Flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the story of an ambitious British aristocrat, humbled by the lives of his fellow passengers, as he embarks on an ocean voyage for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government.
1800:- Young Edmund Talbot is sailing to Australia to take up a government post, on a decrepit old ship skippered by Cap
The ship is becalmed and another vessel is sighted, which turns out to be British - the Alcyone, whose commander announc
Edmund acts as a witness to the wedding between the injured Prettiman and Miss Granham, with flowers grown by the captai
