Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrads long experience as a working seaman enriched and deepened his literary gifts, making him the most brilliant and convincing writer of seafarings greatest age. In the three sea stories collected here, he makes deft use of the maritime setting to enact moral dramas of men tested.

An anarchist's desolation leads to his attempt to dynamite the Greenwich Observatory.

A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.

Collects over forty stories that present a thousand years of adventure and discovery from around the globe.