Briefing for a Descent Into Hell

Briefing for a Descent Into Hell - Vintage International

Paperback (12 Apr 1981)

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Publisher's Synopsis

A fascinating look inside the mind of a man who is supposedly "mad." Professor Charles Watkins of Cambridge University is a patient at a mental hospital where the doctors try with increasing drugs to bring his mind under control. But Watkins has embarked on a tremendous psychological adventure where, after spinning endlessly on a raft in the Atlantic, he lands on a tropical island inhabited by strange creatures with strange customs. Later, he is carried off on a cosmic journey into space…

Book information

ISBN: 9781400077267
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint: Vintage Books
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 145g
Height: 176mm
Width: 105mm
Spine width: 20mm