To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy

Author: William Golding

To the Ends of the Earth, William Golding’s great sea trilogy, presents the extraordinary story of a warship’s troubled journey to Australia in the early 1800s. Told through the pages of Edmund Talbolt’s journal – with equal measure of wit and disdain – it records the mounting tensions and growing misfortunes aboard the ancient ship. An instant maritime classic, and one of….Read More

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