Shipwreck
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
A striking work of maritime art and literary reflection, Shipwreck pairs John Fowles's meditative prose with a haunting collection of photographs documenting the wrecked vessels that litter the treacherous waters around the Isles of Scilly. Fowles, characteristically philosophical and precise, argues that shipwrecks hold a profound mirror to human ambition, folly, and the indifferent power of the sea, transforming what might seem like mere historical record into a meditation on mortality and the sublime. The text moves with a brooding, poetic gravity, drawing on the long and tragic history of seafaring disasters off the Cornish and Scillonian coasts to illuminate the fragile relationship between mankind and the natural world. Gibson's of Scilly, the renowned island photography firm, contributes imagery of extraordinary atmospheric power, capturing rusted hulls, submerged rigging, and wave-battered coastlines with unflinching clarity. The result is a rare collaboration that satisfies both the historian and the literary reader, presenting the wreck not as an ending, but as a kind of brutal, beautiful revelation.
Author: John Fowles
Format: Hardback
Published: 1974, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Photography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
A striking work of maritime art and literary reflection, Shipwreck pairs John Fowles's meditative prose with a haunting collection of photographs documenting the wrecked vessels that litter the treacherous waters around the Isles of Scilly. Fowles, characteristically philosophical and precise, argues that shipwrecks hold a profound mirror to human ambition, folly, and the indifferent power of the sea, transforming what might seem like mere historical record into a meditation on mortality and the sublime. The text moves with a brooding, poetic gravity, drawing on the long and tragic history of seafaring disasters off the Cornish and Scillonian coasts to illuminate the fragile relationship between mankind and the natural world. Gibson's of Scilly, the renowned island photography firm, contributes imagery of extraordinary atmospheric power, capturing rusted hulls, submerged rigging, and wave-battered coastlines with unflinching clarity. The result is a rare collaboration that satisfies both the historian and the literary reader, presenting the wreck not as an ending, but as a kind of brutal, beautiful revelation.