Tide Marks: Restored Classics to Go Edition – Kobo eBook

Tide Marks opens in a winter London of fog, bridges, and vanishing certainties, where the end of an era feels as tangible as the Thames itself. From that bleak, reflective beginning, the book moves through a series of encounters and journeys that probe war, faith, memory, and the uneasy stories people tell to survive. In a newspaper office, a literary editor meets a shabby one-armed veteran selling Christmas cards, and their ironic, moving exchange exposes the distance between patriotic myth and private truth, while the veteran’s claim to have “found God” unsettles the editor’s skepticism. The book then turns outward into adventure and wonder when a narrator receives a typewritten summons to the Moluccas and, against his resistance, is drawn into a sea voyage that feels increasingly fated. From the North Atlantic to the Mediterranean and Egypt, the journey becomes a meditation on travel, history, and the forces that carry human lives along. In Macassar and Celebes, the narrative reaches its most vivid expression: a world of trade, cliffs, chasms, waterfalls, butterflies, and irresistible mystery, where beauty and danger seem inseparable and the call of distant places is as compelling as any siren song. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.