ODTAA by John Masefield

John Masefield

John Edward Masefield, OM, was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death in 1967...

 (1878 - 1967). It is an adventure novel

Adventure novel

The adventure novel is a genre of novels that has adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, as its main theme.-History:...

 first published in February 1926. Its title stands for One Damn Thing After Another. It opens with establishing narrative describing the fictional South American nation of Santa Barbara which "lies far to leeward of the Sugar States, is at the angle of the continent, with two coasts, one facing to the north, the other east. The city of Santa Barbara is in a bay at the angle where these two coast

Coast

A coastline or seashore is the area where land meets the sea or ocean. A precise line that can be called a coastline cannot be determined due to the dynamic nature of tides. The term "coastal zone" can be used instead, which is a spatial zone where interaction of the sea and land processes occurs...

s trend one from each other." The novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 is set prior to the events described in "Sard Harker

Sard Harker

Sard Harker by John Masefield is an adventure novel first published in October 1924. It is the earlier of three novels by Masefield set in the fictional nation of Santa Barbara in South America...

" (published in October 1924).

The novel inspired a work for orchestra, also titled ODTAA, by Doreen Carwithen

Doreen Carwithen

Doreen Mary Carwithen was a British composer of classical and film music. She was also known as Mary Alwyn.-Biography:...

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