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THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER - [.MOBI] - Jamrach's Menagerie BY CAROL BIRCH
In Jamrach's Menagerie, young Jaf sets sail for the South Seas in search of a ‘sea dragon'. Here, Carol Birch nominates her top seafaring stories.
‘The sea with its labouring waves for ever rising, sinking, and vanishing to rise again is the very image of struggling mankind.' So says Joseph Conrad in Lord Jim. A voyage is a rite of passage, a dream, a reckoning, the ship a microcosm of the world, human society intensified. Extreme characters people the great sea stories, burning brightly above unknowable depths - Ahab, John Silver, Wolf Larson in The Sea Wolf. The sea also drives people mad. No wonder it draws writers as surely as it does adventurers. Here then, in no particular order, are ten of the finest examples of the nautical narrative.
In Jamrach's Menagerie, young Jaf sets sail for the South Seas in search of a ‘sea dragon'. Here, Carol Birch nominates her top seafaring stories.‘The sea with its labouring waves for ever rising, sinking, and vanishing to rise again is the very image of struggling mankind.' So says Joseph Conrad in Lord Jim. A voyage is a rite of passage, a dream, a reckoning, the ship a microcosm of the world, human society intensified. Extreme characters people the great sea stories, burning brightly above unknowable depths - Ahab, John Silver, Wolf Larson in The Sea Wolf. The sea also drives people mad. No wonder it draws writers as surely as it does adventurers. Here then, in no particular order, are ten of the finest examples of the nautical narrative.
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