The Master Mariner

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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.

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  The Master Mariner

  • 2012-05-24
  • 866 pages
  • Ebook
  • House of Stratus
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  The Master Mariner: Running Proud

  • 1979
  • 524 pages
  • Paperback
  • Morrow

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