The Rime of the Modern Mariner

The Rime of the Modern Mariner

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Publisher's Synopsis

Deep in a polluted city, a worker escapes his office for a sandwich on a park bench. But his moment's peace is shattered by a stranger - a seaman with a tale to tell...

The Rime of the Modern Mariner is a recasting of Coleridge's famous poem - now, though, the fantastical voyage is one of environmental disaster. Stranded in the North Pacific Gyre - a vast, hypoxic maelstrom of plastic waste - the mariner comes face to face with the consequences of man's excessive consumption - in the form of wrathful gods, petroleum slicks and tsunamis, ghostly apparitions, and the great endangered creatures of the deep.

Crackling with moral force, humour and pure craftsmanship, The Rime of the Modern Mariner is a beautiful book which confronts directly the burning issue of our time.

Book information

ISBN: 9780224090254
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Jonathan Cape
Pub date:
Edition: Hardback original
DEWEY: 823.92
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 334
Weight: 912g
Height: 240mm
Width: 145mm
Spine width: 40mm