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Coles Alone on a Wide Wide Sea: Restored Classics to Go Edition at Village Green Shopping Centre in Vernon, BC
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W. Clark Russell's Alone on a Wide Wide Sea opens as a haunting maritime mystery, following an amnesiac heroine adrift on a great ocean liner and cut off from every trace of her past. Awake in the moonlit night, she is overwhelmed by the ship's grandeur, the sleeping passengers below, and the terrifying emptiness of the sea, until her wandering brings her under suspicion and confirms her status as the rescued stranger from a French brig. A ship's officer and the blunt, good-humored mate Andrew Harris question her, hoping that a shock or a clue in her speech may restore what memory has erased. As the voyage continues, small acts of kindness offer fragile comfort. Mrs. Richards urges her into the company of others, the doctor examines her, and a tender encounter with a baby awakens a brief, painful stir of recollection. Most important is her meeting with Alice Lee, a beautiful young consumptive traveling with her mother, whose sympathy and own awareness of mortality create a moving bond between the two women. Amid lively shipboard talk, literary debate, and the narrator's growing fear of an uncertain future, the novel turns the ocean voyage into a search for identity, belonging, and human connection. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.
W. Clark Russell's Alone on a Wide Wide Sea opens as a haunting maritime mystery, following an amnesiac heroine adrift on a great ocean liner and cut off from every trace of her past. Awake in the moonlit night, she is overwhelmed by the ship's grandeur, the sleeping passengers below, and the terrifying emptiness of the sea, until her wandering brings her under suspicion and confirms her status as the rescued stranger from a French brig. A ship's officer and the blunt, good-humored mate Andrew Harris question her, hoping that a shock or a clue in her speech may restore what memory has erased. As the voyage continues, small acts of kindness offer fragile comfort. Mrs. Richards urges her into the company of others, the doctor examines her, and a tender encounter with a baby awakens a brief, painful stir of recollection. Most important is her meeting with Alice Lee, a beautiful young consumptive traveling with her mother, whose sympathy and own awareness of mortality create a moving bond between the two women. Amid lively shipboard talk, literary debate, and the narrator's growing fear of an uncertain future, the novel turns the ocean voyage into a search for identity, belonging, and human connection. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.
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