# Fear and Courage in The Cruise of the Nona

> Theme guide for The Cruise of the Nona by Hilaire Belloc.

The author explores the nature of fear, describing a moment of indifference to death as neither courage nor religious feeling, but a strange paralysis, and argues for self-mastery in the face of danger.

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