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To the Ends of the Earth is a three-part BBC television miniseries adaptation of the trilogy of novels of the same name by William Golding. It premiered in the United Kingdom on BBC Two in July 2005, and in the United States on PBS as part of Masterpiece Theatre in October 2006.
- Period Drama
To the Ends of the Earth: With Benedict Cumberbatch, Jared Harris, Jamie Sives, Richard McCabe. In 1812, young British aristocrat Edmund Talbot travels by ship to Australia, and learns more about himself and about life than he had ever bargained for.
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Aug 1, 2007 · Drama. To The Ends of The Earth. William Golding's classic sea trilogy, charting a young aristocrat's rite of passage, comes to life in a spectacular adaptation. It's 1812 and Edmund...
To the Ends of the Earth is the title given to a trilogy of nautical, relational novels— Rites of Passage (1980), Close Quarters (1987), and Fire Down Below (1989)—by British author William Golding.
S1.E1 ∙ Rites of Passage. Wed, Jul 6, 2005. 1800:- Young Edmund Talbot is sailing to Australia to take up a government post, on a decrepit old ship skippered by Captain Anderson, who is hostile to Edmund until he realizes that he has important relatives.
Aristocrat Edmund Talbot (Benedict Cumberbatch) sails from England to Australia in the early 19th century.
From Nobel Laureate William Golding's (Lord of the Flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the story of an ambitious British aristocrat, humbled by the lives of his fellow passengers, as he embarks on an ocean voyage for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government.
