Fire Down Below

The final part of Golding's "Sea Trilogy". A decrepit man-of-war is on the last stretch of its voyage to Sydney, blown off course and battered by wind, storm and ice. After a risky operation to reset its foremast with red-hot metal, an unseen fire is smouldering below decks.

  • Author: William Golding
  • Title: Fire Down Below
  • Series: To the Ends of the Earth
  • First Published by: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
  • First Published Format: HC
  • First Published Date: 1989
  • ISBN-10: 0374526389
  • ISBN-13: 9780374526382

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