Running Proud - The Master Mariner, Bk 1 Author:Nicholas Monsarrat Monsarrat considered his major work the projected three-volume novel The Master Mariner, about the British naval history from the Armada to modern day nuclear-powered tankers. Matthew Lawe, the protagonist, is a Flying Duchman figure and like Conrad's Lord Jim, he haunted by a single act of cowardice. Monsarrat finished only the first... more » volume, Running Proud (1978), which covered the period from Francis Drake to Samuel Pepys.« less