europeans

Including photographs, maps, fact boxes, and Web sites, this book tells of the exploration of Africa and the exploration and influence of the Portuguese and British.

Reprints the 1902 novel about Marlow, a seaman who undertakes a journey into the African jungle to find tormented white trader Kurtz; features excerpts from the diary kept by the author during his travels in the Belgian Congo in 1890; and includes a selection of critical commentary.

"Heart of Darkness" tells of a powerful European, Kurtz, who reverts to awful savagery in an isolated native trading post. "The Secret Sharer" describes the conflict of a young captain torn between his duty to his ship and his loyalty to a young officer.

Turn-of-the-century Africa. Colonial traders driven by greed brave forbidding dangers to exploit the continent's vast treasures. One of these sea captains, Marlow, penetrates the depths of the Congo's jungles in pursuit of the mysterious Mr. Kurtz, deranged chief of a remote trading station. Far from civilized society, Marlow and Kurtz face each other and the dark truth about man and themselves.

"Heart of darkness" tells of a powerful European, Kurtz, who reverts to awful savagery in an isolated native trading post. "The secret sharer" describes the conflict of a young captain torn between his duty to his ship and his loyalty to a young officer.

Marlow comes face to face with the corruption and despair that lies at the heart of human existence when he undertakes a journey on behalf of a Belgian trading company up the Congo River in search of the tormented white ivory trader, Kurtz.

Presents two novels by Joseph Conrad, "Heart of Darkness", in which Marlow experiences the depths of moral depravity as he travels through a dangerous jungle, and "The Secret Sharer", which recounts a young sea captain's first command through the Gulf of Siam, where he must face the demons of his unconscious mind.