num_pages: 288
description: In the cabin of an ancient, stinking warship bound for Australia, a man writes a journal to entertain his godfather back in England. With wit and disdain he records mounting tensions on board, as an obsequious clergyman attracts the animosity of the tyrannical captain and surly crew.
language: English
title: Rites of Passage
titlecomplete: Rites of Passage
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: Gardners Books