High adventure, severe danger, survival, loss and renewal - they're found in both halves of this beautiful novel. When lone yachtsman David Samson rescues Elizabeth James and her daughter from the teeth of disaster off Labrador, they little know that six months of ice-bound hell await them. Their survival is down to David's courage and seamanship, as they sail to Bird Rock Island and make their final landfall in the west of Ireland. Here, settled in their new home, 'Safe Haven', nothing can go wrong for them... Can it? Psychological insight and an intimate knowledge of that cruel mistress, the sea, give Donald Hindle's writing an acute edge. Here's an uplifting saga spread over a broad canvas, with a parade of characters, a story within a story, and a neat twist at the end. Who could ask for more?

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.

One of the most intellectually and emotionally engaging of the Spanish Golden Age (seventeenth century) plays, as well as the most controversial. Taking place during the reign of King Pedro of Castile (1350-1369), it is one of the spectacular 'honour dramas', in which the main characters confront compelling yet conflicting imperatives. The Physician of His Honour is beautiful in its poetry and unsettling in its resolution. For more than 350 years the play and its author have been as fiercely reviled as they have been enthusiastically acclaimed by audiences and readers. First published in 1997, for the second edition the translation has been extensively revised, with the aim of simplifying the English, whilst continuing to respect and acknowledge as much as possible the beauties and challenges of the original Spanish.