 Selections from Lowry's novel are read by Richard Burton amid images shot in Mexico, the United States, Canada and England.In 2001, Lowry's first wife Jan Gabrial revealed in her memoir that she had an early draft of Lowry's novel "In Ballast to the White Sea," which was thought to have been lost.According to Professor Dean Irvine at Dalhousie University, Lowry had given an early copy of the novel to Gabrial's mother before the couple went to Mexico in 1936.