The Lonely Sea [antikvár]

The Lonely SeaEarly in the new year of 1954, Alistair MacLean entered the short story competition of the Glasgow Herald with a story called "The Dileas". It is the haunting tale of the love an old seaman bears his two sonsa love so great that he takes an old fishing boat out in a terrifying storm, risking his and his crew's life, in order to rescue them. "The Dileas" won the first prize of L100. To MacLean, a schoolmasterteacher of English, it represented a small fortune. In October 1955 Collins published his first fuU-length novel, H.M.S. Ulysses, which was a huge instant bestseller. A year later they published The Guns of Navarone. The rest is history.What is so special about "The Dileas" is MacLean's extraordinary evocation of the power and lure of the sea, and the incredible courage and endurance of the men for whom it is hfe. MacLean is such a manhe knows and loves the sea and he understands the seafaring life because he has lived it.Thirty years after the publication of his first book, collected here for the first time are Alistair MacLean's stories of the sea. They includeof coursethe