With this and her previous book, The Endurance, she has made the wondrous genre of open-boat-voyage narratives still more wondrousThis sounds like Conrad writing. A sea mist hangs over this age-old tale. Alexander dispels it, to the readers fascination. But when the facts are told and the fates of the cast duly chronicled, the sea mist settles in again, as impenetrable and yet more interesting than it has ever been. New York Times Book ReviewAlexanderhandles the story with great thoroughness and calm.
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