From when he was twelve years old Robert Radnor had been in love with the idea of being a sailor. & a sailor he became, at home on the sea as other men were on l&. Until the year of 1948, on board the steamship Golden Delta, serving as first officer under Captain Peeke, when Radnor's uncanny intuition about the sea & its ways suddenly deserts him & he finds himself alone with the sea, with his fear & with his terrifying foreknowledge.
With A Clear Calling David Austin brings a remarkable new voice to British fiction.