This is the first edition of In Ballast to the White Sea, the autobiographical novel by Malcolm Lowry, known to most only through the highly romanticized story of its loss in a fire. In fact, the typescript itself has probably been read by at most a dozen people since Lowry...
In June 1944, Malcolm Lowry saved from the flames the work that would be his celebrated novel, Bajo el volc n. He believed that Rumbo al mar blanco, the manuscript he had worked on relentlessly, had been lost in the same fire. But now, more than 50 years...