Heart of Darkness: A Steamer Up the Congo to Fetch Kurtz
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by John Atkinson Grimshaw, James McNeill Whistler and Thomas Baines. A steamer captain tells, over a slack tide on the Thames, how he took a ship up a river in Africa to fetch out an agent who had stopped sending ivory and started sending nothing. Conrad had commanded such a steamer on the Congo in 1890 and came back with the fever that dogged him for life. What the company calls trade the book calls plunder, and the man at the end of the river is the company's best man. Fifty-eight plates by Turner, Whistler and others follow the river from sunset to dusk, matching the slow, darkening passage up the Congo.
Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by John Atkinson Grimshaw, James McNeill Whistler and Thomas Baines. A steamer captain tells, over a slack tide on the Thames, how he took a ship up a river in Africa to fetch out an agent who had stopped sending ivory and started sending nothing....
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Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) was a Polish-born British writer. After a career in the merchant marine, he settled in England and produced novels and stories including The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes, The Secret Sharer, The Arrow of Gold, and Tales of Unrest.
Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) was a Polish-born British writer. After a career in the merchant marine, he settled in England and produced novels and stories including The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes, The Secret Sharer, The Arrow of Gold, and Tales of Unrest.
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