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Set in the mid-1970s during the closing years of the golden age of British shipping, this is the author's account of the five years during which he worked as a junior officer in the Far East and South Pacific.

Seafaring life. --- Merchant mariners. --- Merchant marines. --- Merchant marine --- Merchant seamen --- Sailors --- Sailors' life --- Sea life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- Voyages and travels --- Personnel --- Hall, Simon J.

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Up-to-date and extensive revision of Najder's much-acclaimed scholarly biography of Conrad, employing newly accessible sources. Joseph Conrad is not only one of the world's great writers of English -- and world -- literature, but was a writer who lived a particularly full and interesting life. For the biographer this is a double-edged sword, however: thereare many periods for which documentation is uncommonly difficult. Zdzislaw Najder's meticulously documented biography first appeared in English in 1983, garnering high praise as the best, most complete biography of Conrad. Najder's command of English, French, Polish, and Russian allowed him access to a greater variety of sources than any other biographer, and his Polish background and his own experience as an exile have afforded him a unique affinity forConrad and his milieu. All this has come into play once again in the present, extensively revised edition: much of its extensive new material was unearthed in newly-opened former east-bloc archives. There is new material on Conrad's father's genealogy and his role in Polish politics; Conrad's service in the French and British merchant marines; his early English reading and correspondence; his experiences in the Congo; the circumstances of writing his memoirs, and much more. In addition, several aspects of Conrad's life and works are more thoroughly analyzed: his problems with the English language; his borrowings from French writers; his attitude toward socialism, his reaction to the reception of his books. Zdzislaw Najder teaches at the European Academy, Cracow.

Authors, English --- Conrad, Joseph, --- Knowledge --- Poland. --- Poland --- In literature. --- Korzeniowski, Józef Konrad Teodor, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad Theodore, --- Konrad, Dzhozef, --- Kʻang-la-te, --- Conrad-Korzeniowski, Joseph, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad-, --- Kʻonradŭ, Josep, --- Kʻonradŭ, Chosep, --- Kʻolladŭ, Josep, --- Konrad, Dzd. --- Conrad, Józef, --- קונראד, ג׳וזף, --- קונראד, ג׳וסף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף, --- קונרד, יוסף --- 康拉德, --- Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowsky, Jozef Tedor, --- Konrant, Tzozeph, --- Knowledge and learning. --- Congo. --- English language. --- English reading. --- Exile. --- French writers. --- Genealogy. --- Joseph Conrad. --- Memoirs. --- Merchant marines. --- Newly accessible sources. --- Polish background. --- Polish politics. --- Reception of books. --- Scholarly biography. --- Socialism.