The Master Mariner- Book 2: Darken Ship-The Unfinished Novel (1980) By Nicholas Monsarrat
This is Nicholas Monsarrat’s final masterpiece, an epic tale of the sea and seafaring from the sixteenth century to near the end of the twentieth.
Told from the point of view of Mathew Lawe, a young Devon sailor who is cursed after a spectacular act of cowardice to wander ‘the wild waters till all the seas run dry’, it is historical fiction but beset by real events. Monsarrat follows the great captains and naval adventurers from the Artic to the South Pacific. Lawe represents the spirit of maritime exploration and fortitude; his life is the thread stringing together a long history of nautical adventure.
In this sequel to Running Proud, Matthew Lawe continues his 400-year odyssey by shipping on an illegal slave trader in the year 1808.
- Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
- 181 pages
- In Good Condition
