Rites of Passage by William Golding Blood will turn on blood

Blood will turn on blood and allegiances will be tested on every side

we dogs are an odd lot

even practice chanting

and she’s utterly confused by them all

But they have betrayed the earth from which true wealth springs

Rites of Passage by William Golding Blood will turn on bloodThe 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. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, stinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks. Then a single passenger, the obsequious Reverend Colley, attracts the animosity of the