The Ship That Sailed to Mars

About this book

An old man's imagination carries a ship beyond the familiar world. With the help of fairy companions, he sets out through celestial space towards Mars, passing landscapes where clouds, stars and impossible architecture seem to have been painted from a dream.

William M. Timlin created this extraordinary illustrated fantasy as a sequence of hand-lettered pages and richly coloured paintings. The tale moves with the freedom of a bedtime story, while its images linger over shining cities, distant planets and fantastic travellers. The physical book, with separate leaves of text and artwork, is as much an object of visual storytelling as a work of fiction.