The Sea Wolf (Adlard Coles Maritime Classics) - Softcover

London, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472907248 ISBN 13: 9781472907240

Verlag: Adlard Coles, 2014

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Críticas:

stylish, high quality collector's edition (Hardy Boat Owner)

A dark-hearted classic that tells of an urbane man who falls into the clutches of an evil, deranged ship captain... Frightening and through-provoking. (Classic Boat)

Timeless masterpiece... updated with pictures and maps. (Yachting World)

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Set adrift after a collision with another vessel, ferry passenger Humphrey van Weyden is picked up by the seal-hunting schooner the Ghost. His relief at being rescued slowly turns into concern once he meets her captain, the brutally terrifying Wolf Larsen. The crew of the Ghost live in terror of their fearsome commander, and van Weyden is not made any safer because Larsen is attracted to his new passenger's comparable intelligence.

Van Weyden's time aboard the Ghost turns him from a gentle, domesticated man into an altogether tougher soul as he is caught between Larsen and his crew during the rescue of other castaways, an attempted mutiny, a cataclysmic storm and the appearance of Wolf's equally terrible brother, Death Larsen.

Wolf Larsen is one of the greatest characters in early 20th century American fiction. Like Captain Ahab before him, he is a man who has spent too long at sea. We might assume he has become inhuman, but the novel gradually but subtly reveals that it was the nature of life at the mercy of the angry oceans that turned him into the sea wolf.

This special edition includes an exclusive Foreword by adventurer Bear Grylls, which takes a fascinating look at the character of Wolf Larsen from the perspective of someone who has also stared nature in its unforgiving face.

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• Verlag: Adlard Coles
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1472907248
• ISBN 13: 9781472907240
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352