This is a story of a neurotic who regains health and sanity by a sea voyage. The forty-year-old hero] embarks on a voyage to the Cape fully convinced that because he was born at sea he will therefore die at sea, and he takes with him his wife and her lover, who are merely. waiting for his death, and a newly engaged lady secretary to witness the last rites. Of course, he does -|Rot die, but undergoes instead a rebirth, by virtue partly of the sea air and partly of three amorous adventures, and the book ends with eloping. with the last of his adventures, leaving his wife and her lover stranded at Cape Town 'This' somewhat improbable tale is supported by oxcolient drawing of the "various. types of characters among the ship's passengers, which include a pair of attractive but empty-headed flapper twins, and a Very unpleasant young. gentleman who makes. his living by methods such as cardsharping and. black-railing his. fellow-passengers. is this power of character drawing added' to undeniable competence in the technique of the novel, which is worthy of a. better
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