Malcolm Lowry's stunning debut novel about a young man's introduction to life at sea among the hard-living crewmembers of a freighter bound for South AsiaIn this moving, coming-of-age precursor to Under the Volcano, protagonist Dana Hilliot seeks absolution from his upper-class British upbringing. He escapes the bourgeois provincialism of his origins by setting out to sea as a messboy amid a crew of weathered, world-weary sailors. Lost somewhere between Singapore and Bombay, Hilliot has fled his