Maiden Voyage
Most writing rests on the ability to balance some sort of philosophical outlook with the talent to convey it compellingly. Rare is the writer who can carry a text with description alone. Denton Welch was the latter to the nth degree. His book Maiden Voyage through the use of a purely observational narration, reminds one of the simple act we are all constantly performing — looking at the world and processing it in the privacy of our own heads. His accounts are sometimes venomous but always gorgeous in their candid precision.
Denton Welch, Maiden Voyage, 1943