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The life of Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski reads like an adventure story, an adventure story written by somebody like Joseph Conrad. The young Conrad dreamed of a life at sea and eventually became a British merchant seaman, working his way up from apprentice to captain on classic three-masted square-rigged barques. He would also become one of the most important novelists in the English language, and almost half of his life's work is set in Southeast Asia. Conrad's favourite destination was the vibrant, bustling port of Singapore as well as the remote ports of the Dutch East Indies, and his early works - Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, Lord Jim and The Rescue - are based on the people and places he encountered in his own voyages on the Vidar, a trading vessel that plied the waters of the Indonesian archipelago from its base in Singapore.
In Joseph Conrad's Eastern Voyages, Ian Burnet places Conrad's Malay novels into their proper narrative sequence and explores the backstory of his characters helping the reader to visualise the cultural and historical context of Conrad's time in late 19th-century Southeast Asia.
Contents
Prologue
1 - The voyage of the sailing ship Palestine, 1881
2 - Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski's early life
3 - The voyage of the sailing ship Highland Forest, 1887
4 - The Founding of Singapore
5 - That Great Eastern Port - Singapore
6 - The voyage of the steamship Jeddah, 1880
7 - East Borneo
8 - The voyages of the steamship Vidar, 1887-1888
9 - Macassar
10 - The voyage of the sailing ship Otago, 1888
11 - The voyage into the Heart of Darkness, 1890
12 - The voyages of the sailing ship Torrens, 1891-1893
13 - The voyage of the steamship Adowa, 1894
14 - From Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski to Joseph Conrad
15 - The Rescue - The Man and his Brig
16 - Almayer's Folly - Lingard and Company
17 - An Outcast of the Islands
18 - Almayer's Folly - Of Gold and Gunpowder
19 - The Rescue - The Shore of Refuge
20 - Lord Jim
21 - The Rescue - Claim of Life and Toll of Death
Epilogue
Timeline
Bibliography
