Christopher Martin, the sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer, is stranded upon a rock in the middle of the Atlantic. Pitted against him are the sea, the sun, the night cold and the terror of his isolation. To drink there is a pool of rain water; to eat there are weeds and sea...
The ultimate survival story: a shipwrecked sailor's disintegration into 'a naked madman on a rock' by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, William Golding.
An hour on this rock is a lifetime.
Christopher Martin, the sole survivor...
From William Golding, the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and author of Lord of the Flies , Pincher Martin is a terrifying and unforgettable journey into one man's mind. Drowning in the freezing North Atlantic, Christopher Hadley Martin, temporary lieutenant, happens...