The first book of the trilogy "To the Ends of the Earth" by William Golding. A ship sails from England to Australia. It is the early years of the 19th century, and the journey from one end of the world to the other is long and difficult.
The young Edmund Talbot, to pass the time, keeps a diary intended to be read by his godfather in England. Sometimes with humor and sometimes with disdain, he describes the tensions simmering among the officers, sailors, soldiers, and migrants all crammed aboard the old ship.
Until a solitary traveler, the Reverend Coley, incites the sailors' hostility. An unspeakable act plunges him into the "hell of self-degradation," and shame proves to be a force more destructive and ruthless than the sea...
Nobel Prize winner William Golding creates a microcosm of English society of the time on the ship's deck, with its class distinctions and moral hypocrisy. An insightful and timely book, and simultaneously an ode to the sea and distant voyages, which won the Booker Prize in 1980.
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