The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

Georges Duhamel (June 30 1884 – April 13 1966) was a French author born in Paris. In 1920 he publiGeorges Duhameld Confession de minuit (ISBN 2-7152-1793-5) the first of a series featuring the anti-hero Salavin.