Title: Slow water
First published: 2003
Description: The year is 1836. English clergyman William Yate sets sail from London, bound for the mission fields of northern New Zealand. Caught up in a mesmerising love affair that will test the imagination of everyone on board the Prince Regent, he is utterly transformed. Against the riveting backdrop of a four-month sea voyage and the vividly imagined society of the ship, the story of Yate unfolds, drawing together the inarticulate hopes of the cabin passengers, the immigrant families of steerage, and the raw men and boys of the crew.
Subjects: Scandals, Missionaries, Ocean travel, Gay men, Immigrants, Fiction, Social classes, Voyages around the world, New Zealand fiction
Places: New Zealand
People: William Yate
LC classification: PR9639.3.J34 S58 2003