Word: nostromo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adventures began when Conrad (real name: Teodor Joózef Konrad Korzeniowski), the orphaned son of Polish intellectuals, defied his guardian and went to sea at the age of 16. Nostromo, for instance, describes with photographic precision a revolution he witnessed in Central America while serving as an apprentice aboard a French barque carrying guns to the insurgents. The Nigger of the Narcissus narrates, day by day, a stormy voyage that Conrad once took around the Cape of Good Hope; the "nigger" was an old black seaman born a slave in Georgia who died at sea as he does...