num_pages: 278
description: The first volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy.Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, stinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks. Then a single passenger, the obsequious Reverend Colley, attracts the animosity of the sailors, and in the seclusion of the fo'castle something happens to bring him into a 'hell of degradation', where shame is a force deadlier than the sea itself.
language: English
title: Rites of Passage
titlecomplete: Rites of Passage (To the Ends of the Earth, #1)
characters: Summers, Wheeler, Miss Granham, Zenobia Brocklebank, Cumbershum, Mr. Prettiman, Billy Rogers, Reverend Colley, Edmund Talbot, Captain Anderson, Deverel
genres: 20th Century, Historical, Historical Fiction, Nobel Prize, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 3975
series: To the Ends of the Earth
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Booker Prize
publisher: Faber and Faber