The Other Landscape - Softcover

Gunn, Neil

 
9781899863266: The Other Landscape

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"I came among the men and I saw the heaving boat. She was small and the two figures on the oars were slowly bending toys. They were pulling her to sea, with her nose just off the wind and Dan on the inside heavy oar. When the gust hit her the oars stopped and when its vicious whine passed she was closer in. Dan was striving to gain seaway sidewise like a crab in order to open the channel. Perhaps he had thought he would open it wide enough to work across the channel and so come under the lea of the island. He would never do that now. A hellish gust drove us back and then I heard Sam Mor roar. Because of the treachery of the wind near the cliff-head Charlie had been all but sucked over. By the grace of chance he had got a handhold and crawled back. Sam Mor cursed him for a young fool.
"When I got to my feet again she looked utterly helpless in the wallowing white-smitten seas....." from p.276

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