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Rite of Passage is a science fiction novel by American writer Alexei Panshin. Published in 1968 as an Ace Science Fiction Special , this novel about a shipboard teenager's coming of age won that year's Nebula Award , and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1969.
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To the Ends of the Earth is the title given to a trilogy of nautical, relational novels— Rites of Passage (1980), Close Quarters (1987), and Fire Down Below (1989)—by British author William Golding. Set on a former British man-of-war transporting migrants to Australia in the early 19th century, the novels explore themes of class and man's ...
Jan 1, 2001 · 4,103 ratings272 reviews. The first volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy. Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England.
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In cultural anthropology the term is the Anglicisation of rite de passage, a French term innovated by the ethnographer Arnold van Gennep in his work Les rites de passage, The Rites of Passage. [1] The term is now fully adopted into anthropology as well as into the literature and popular cultures of many modern languages.
Summary. PDF Cite Share. Hollis Sanders. | Certified Educator. Last Updated September 5, 2023. William Golding's Rites of Passage is the first novel in the To the Ends of the Earth trilogy....
Rites of Passage. Written by William Golding. The first book of William Golding’s Sea Trilogy is a haunting account of an epic sea journey, which profoundly affects all those who set sail on it.
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Oct 1, 1999 · Winner of the 1980 Booker Prize. William Golding’s To the Ends of the Earth trilogy is now a BBC/PBS Masterpiece miniseries staring Benedict Cumberbatch, Jared Harris and Sam Neill. Sailing to...
