Captain Whalley was once a celebrated master of fast sailing ships. Now ruined and past sixty, he has sunk his last money into a share of the coasting steamer Sofala, working the Malay Straits under a bitter engineer-owner named Massy, so that he can keep sending help to his daughter in Australia. He is also guarding a secret that makes each passage more dangerous.
One of Conrad’s most moving long stories, about pride, love and the slow failure of a strong man. Download the free EPUB.