num_pages: 408
description: Nine men aboard an old Caribbean schooner drift in search of the fishing grounds of their forefathers, to find only a modern world in which they have no place. This powerful story of the sea is also a resonantly symbolic account of the relations between man and nature.An adventure story and a deeply considered meditation upon the sea itself.
language: English
title: Far Tortuga
titlecomplete: Far Tortuga (Panther)
genres: Travel, Adventure, Literature, Novels, Classics, Fiction, Literary Fiction, American Fiction, Nature, American
ratings_count: 1181
publisher: The Harvell Press