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Set at the end of the last century, a thrilling tale of mutiny and shipwreck, which bears comparison with Melville's Moby Dick or Conrad's Typhoon in its suspense and evocation of seafaring. It is also the story of mankind's voyage into the twentieth century, suspended between the empty skies and bottomless depths, dreadfully aware of the potential for self-destruction, but clinging to a belief in the preservation of a fragile humanity.