Even though he was mostly ashore during this novel, he spent a lot of A dotted line draws the long voyages between IndiaĪnd England for Lord Jim, between South America and Australia in A Set of Six, along theĬongo River in The Heart of Darkness, e.g., and for The Rover, the title simply fills the It is a rough world map covering theīook's paste down and free endpapers. Where Conrad's various novels are set in the world. Inside the front cover of this hardback book is a wonderful diagram which illustrates It's the kind of long sea journey that marks so many of Joseph Conrad's stories. Then we cruised into Palmer Station, a USA Experimental Station on the Antarctic Peninsula and returned to BuenosĪires.

We roved from Rio de Janeiro down through Uruguay, Buenos Aires, down to Ushuaia which is the end of world, the southmost point of any landmass on the Earth. I wonder if you will ever find your destination.'Īfter reading that page I ordered a copy of The Rover, and to complete the symmetry, I read it while on an adventure down to Antarctica. You seem to have one strange adventure afterĪnother. There are rovers, and there are settlers, but

You read this?' Sacks said, 'No, but I like the title.' You were away on your birthday, up in the Arctic. Then she reached in her bagĪnd pulled out a book for her favorite nephew Oliver saying, 'And I've got a birthday-bookįor you. Loved being a maiden aunt with 230 grand nieces and nephews. It was her birthdayĪnd Sacks gave her a book, The Maiden Aunt in Fact and Fiction. Relative, a maiden aunt of 82 years old, visited him in the hospital when he was recoveringįrom a serious accident in which he lost complete control over his legs. In Oliver Sacks's book, A Leg to Stand On, he mentions on page 89 that his favorite Reminder of New Reviews & New DIGESTWORLD Issues - CLICK Like Us? Subscribe to Receive a Monthly Email Published by Doubleday, Page & Co/NY in 1927

The arrival of young Lieutenant Real necessitates another mission of danger, patriotism and heroism from Peyrol.The Rover A Novel by Joseph Conrad, Reading for Enjoyment ARJ2 Review by Bobby Matherne Site Map: MAIN / A Reader's Journal, Vol. Citizen Peyrol returns to his native France against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Rover

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