Uncorrected Advance Proof. 8vo. Pp. [ii], 281, [1, blank]. Printed green wraps.
Mention of 'paperback' issue on front cover lined through and corrected in blue ink to 'hardback'.
A Napoleonic era year-long crossing from England to the Antipodes of a motley band of passengers and crew aboard a decrepit former man-o'-war. Adapted as a BBC miniseries in 2005, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Jared Harris and Sam Neill. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. "It tells an utterly absorbing tale, in language of immense force and subtlety". –Financial Times
[Gekoski and Grogan A18a]