Pincher Martin
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TextPublication details: London Faber & Faber 1962Description: 208pISBN: 0571192513Subject(s): English literature- Fiction | Castaways | Survival | Airplane crash survival | Shipwreck survival | Atlantic Ocean | Fiction | British literatureDDC classification: 823.914 Summary: Drowning in the freezing North Atlantic, Christopher Hadley Martin, temporary lieutenant, happens upon a grotesque rock, an island that appears only on weather charts. To drink there is a pool of rain water; to eat there are weeds and sea anemones. Through the long hours with only himself to talk to, Martin must try to assemble the truth of his fate, piece by terrible piece.
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Stack | Stack | 823.914 GOL/P (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 04533 |
Drowning in the freezing North Atlantic, Christopher Hadley Martin, temporary lieutenant, happens upon a grotesque rock, an island that appears only on weather charts. To drink there is a pool of rain water; to eat there are weeds and sea anemones. Through the long hours with only himself to talk to, Martin must try to assemble the truth of his fate, piece by terrible piece.
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