Set To Sea HC

Description

"This is Drew Weing's debut graphic novel, drawn in an elaborate crosshatched style that falls somewhere between Gustave Doré engravings and E.C. Segar. Part rollicking adventure, part maritime ballad; Set to Sea chronicles what can happen when an aspiring poet is shanghaied aboard a clipper bound for Hong Kong, and finds the sailor's life a bit rougher than his romantic nautical fantasies. He helps rebuff a pirate assault, survives a gunshot to the eye, and learns to live a Conradian life on the sea, all the while writing poetry about pirates, bad food, unceremonial funerals, foreign ports, and unexpected epiphanies."