1980 Rites of Passage

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First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

First edition. Written as the journal of a young aristocrat, Edmund Talbot, whose influential godfather has arranged for him to be employed with the Governor of New South Wales. This story details Talbot's account of a six-moth voyage to Australia in the early nineteenth century with a group of British migrants on a converted man-of-war. Written by William Golding, a British novelist, playwright, and poet best known for his novel Lord of the Flies. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.