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Joseph Conrad's Eastern Voyages

Tales of Singapore and an East Borneo River
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The life of Jozef 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 lifes work is set in Southeast Asia. Conrads favorite destination was the vibrant, bustling port of Singapore as well as the remote ports of the Dutch East Indies, and his early works - Almayers 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 Conrads Eastern Voyages, Ian Burnet places Conrads Malay novels into their proper narrative sequence and explores the backstory of his characters helping the reader to visualize the cultural and historical context of Conrads time in late 19th-century Southeast Asia.

Author and historian Ian Burnet grew up in South Gippsland in Victoria, Australia, and has spent thirty years living, working and travelling in Indonesia and wider Southeast Asia. His fascination for the diverse history and culture of the Indonesian archipelago is reflected in his numerous books set in the region.

* Australian author.
* 2024 marks 100 years of the death of author Joseph Conrad.
* Places Conrad’s Malay fiction into its historical and cultural context in 19th-c. Singapore and Indonesia and makes is accessible to a non-academic audience.
* Burnet connects the fictional and real worlds in this fascinating introduction to Conrad’s life in the Malay archipelago.
* Weaves the exciting tale of Conrad’s own life in Southeast Asia with that of the people he meets and the fictional characters he creates.

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