An important early work by a key French thinker. I Urien’s Voyage is a fantastic allegorical account of a journey to the Arctic, From the stagnant teeming waters of the Sargasso to the frozen north. Gide charts in sensual, sumptuous prose the marvellous journey of the Orton and the sexual and moral transformations of its crew. Largely overlooked on its first UK publication in 1964. Urien’s Voyage is now regarded as a key work, articulating the powerful tension between sexuality and morality that would preoccupy its author in all his writing to come. A Peter Owen Modern Classic.