On an impulse a young officer throws up a good berth in an Eastern port and is unexpectedly given command of a sailing ship at Bangkok, her captain dead at sea. Becalmed in the Gulf of Siam with the crew down with fever, the quinine gone and a mate haunted by the old captain, he crosses from youth into responsibility.
Written during the First World War and dedicated to Conrad’s son and his generation, it is one of his finest late works. Download the free EPUB.