Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Richard Parkes Bonington, J. M. W. Turner and Winslow Homer. A man wrongly imprisoned finds a fortune, builds a fortress on the sea and takes control of the world's shipping lanes, then has to decide what to do with the power. Shiel wrote it in 1901 and the book is as strange as everything else he did. This edition binds 59 plates of painting with the text, among them Winslow Homer, Edvard Munch and J. M. W. Turner, all on the subject of fishermen and the sea.