This is a Sinhala translation of Masterman Ready, the sea story by the English novelist Captain Marryat, himself a former Royal Navy officer. The whole book is in Sinhala — there is no English text in it — so it will suit readers who read the language comfortably, or families wanting Sinhala reading for children at home or abroad.
The subject is a voyage by sea, and the dangers that attend one. Sea travel carries risk now; in the age the story belongs to it carried a great deal more, and the book keeps that fear and tension at its centre. Ananda Kumara's translation brings the narrative into Sinhala for readers who meet it in that language rather than the original.
M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd, the Colombo publishing house, issues it. Translated adventure fiction of this kind has long formed part of Sinhala reading for younger readers, and this title sits in that company — a straightforward narrative of the sea, told at length.
- Author: Ananda Kumara
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552102271
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