Book description
Collection of riveting tales of the sea including the story that
launched his writing career, the account of the epic battle to sink the
German battle ship, Bismarck, and two new stories collected here for the
first time.
THE MASTER STORYTELLER IN HIS ELEMENT…
Alistair MacLean has an unmistakable and unrivalled skill in writing
about the sea and its power and about the men and women who sail it, and
who fight and die in it.
His distinctive voice was evident from his very first prize-winning
story, 'The Dileas', and has been heard time and again in his
international career as the author of such bestsellers as H. M.S.
Ulysses and San Andreas.
The Lonely Sea starts where MacLean's career started, with 'The
Dileas', and collects together his stories of the sea. Here is a
treasury of vintage MacLean, compelling and brilliant, where the master
storyteller is in his element.
This reissue includes two new stories, 'The Good Samaritan' and 'The
Black Storm', which bear all the classic hallmarks of MacLean's finest
writing and are published here for the very first time. Alistair
MacLean, the son of a Scots minister, was brought up in the Scottish
Highlands. In 1941 he joined the Royal Navy. After the war he read
English at Glasgow University and became a schoolmaster. The two and a
half years he spent aboard a wartime cruiser were to give him the
background for HMS Ulysses, his remarkably successful first novel,
published in 1955. He is now recognized as one of the outstanding
popular writers of the 20th century, the author of 29 worldwide
bestsellers, many of which have been filmed.
