Captain Tom Lingard, master of the brig Lightning, has pledged his ship and fortune to restore Hassim, a young Malay ruler, to his lost land. When a stranded English yacht carrying the cold Mr. Travers and his wife Edith blunders onto the coast, Lingard is torn between that promise and his growing passion for Mrs. Travers.
Set aside in 1898 and finished twenty years later, it completes Conrad’s Lingard trilogy; some characters’ racial language reflects its era. Download the free EPUB.