The third book of the trilogy To the Ends of the Earth

The ship carrying young Edmund Talbot from England to Australia is nearing its destination. But on a sea voyage in the early 19th century, difficulties and dangers lurk until the last moment… The battered vessel still has to face an encounter with an iceberg and a deadly storm, while passions, violence, and rivalries flare among the passengers, who have reached their limits after so many months at sea. And while a fire threatens to break out in the bowels of the ship, the land towards which it is heading seems more distant than ever…

The Nobel Prize-winning William Golding completes a captivating coming-of-age work with some of the finest pages of sea adventure ever written.