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Joseph Conrad – The Voyages of the Otago

The Otago was a three-masted iron barque of 348 tons built in Glasgow in 1869 for Captain Angus Cameron, who sailed her to Port Chalmers, Otago, New Zealand in 1871. This was her maiden voyage, and she reached Port Chalmers … Continue reading

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From Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski to Joseph Conrad – An Outcast of the Islands

The fact that his first book, Almayer’s Folly, almost immediately met with extraordinary critical acclaim would have certainly started Joseph Conrad thinking about another book. Conrad’s imagination returned to East Borneo, the Berau River, and his meeting there with Carel … Continue reading

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From Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski to Joseph Conrad – Almayer’s Folly

In A Personal Record, Conrad describes writing the tenth chapter of Almayer’s Folly on board the Adowa in Rouen harbour. The remaining two chapters, which brought his novel to its fatal conclusion, were completed in only three months and on … Continue reading

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Joseph Conrad’s Eastern World – National Geographic, March 1924

The Earth is a stage, and though it may be an advantage, even to the right comprehension of the play, to know its exact configuration, it is always the drama of human endeavour that will be the thing, with a … Continue reading

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Joseph Conrad, a voyage to Mauritius

In 1888 the barque Otago was commissioned to sail to Mauritius with general cargo and return with a cargo of sugar. As captain of the Otago, Joseph Conrad sought the permission of the owners to take the more difficult, but … Continue reading

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