Download or read book The Master Mariner written by Nicholas Monsarrat and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Monsarrat's masterpiece, an epic tale of the sea and seafaring from the sixteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Mathew Lawe, a young sailor, is cursed after a spectacular act of cowardice to wander 'the wild waters till all the seas run dry', it is historical fiction beset by real events.