Marlow's Dream: Joseph Conrad in Antipodean Ports
$35.00
Unit price
per
Author: Martin Edmond
Joseph Conrad is a major figure in modern literature. Before his writing career was established in 1899 with 'Heart of Darkness', Conrad was a merchant seafarer and eventually a shipmaster of vessels that regularly sailed between Europe and its antipodes, with several visits to Australia & New Zealand. In 'Marlow’s Dream', Martin Edmond shows in vivid detail how Conrad both collected and began to arrange the tales that would later appear in his fiction during these voyages. Intertwining Conrad’s biography with his own, Edmond masterfully demonstrates how Conrad’s celebrated stories were lifted straight out of his experiences as an itinerant mariner who had spent countless days in antipodean ports between 1878–93.Martin Edmond is the author of more than twenty books. He has a Doctorate of Creative Arts from Western SydneyUniversity where he wrote his dissertation, which later appeared as the book Battarbee and Namatjira. Edmond’s works of memoir and biography about art and artists include Dark Night: Walking with McCahon, The Supply Party (on artist LudwigBecker), Chronicle of the Unsung, winner of the 2005 Montana Book Award for Biography, and The Resurrection of PhilipClairmont. His other books include Luca Antara, Waimarino County, The Autobiography of My Father and The Expatriates (the latter including a history of Joe Trapp, the long-serving director of the Warburg Institute who was from New Zealand).In 2013 he received the New Zealand Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Non-Fiction in recognition of hisoutstanding contribution to literature.
ISBN 9780648629702. Memo Review/Index Books. pb. 252 pages. 11 x 17 cm.
available
Joseph Conrad is a major figure in modern literature. Before his writing career was established in 1899 with 'Heart of Darkness', Conrad was a merchant seafarer and eventually a shipmaster of vessels that regularly sailed between Europe and its antipodes, with several visits to Australia & New Zealand. In 'Marlow’s Dream', Martin Edmond shows in vivid detail how Conrad both collected and began to arrange the tales that would later appear in his fiction during these voyages. Intertwining Conrad’s biography with his own, Edmond masterfully demonstrates how Conrad’s celebrated stories were lifted straight out of his experiences as an itinerant mariner who had spent countless days in antipodean ports between 1878–93.Martin Edmond is the author of more than twenty books. He has a Doctorate of Creative Arts from Western SydneyUniversity where he wrote his dissertation, which later appeared as the book Battarbee and Namatjira. Edmond’s works of memoir and biography about art and artists include Dark Night: Walking with McCahon, The Supply Party (on artist LudwigBecker), Chronicle of the Unsung, winner of the 2005 Montana Book Award for Biography, and The Resurrection of PhilipClairmont. His other books include Luca Antara, Waimarino County, The Autobiography of My Father and The Expatriates (the latter including a history of Joe Trapp, the long-serving director of the Warburg Institute who was from New Zealand).In 2013 he received the New Zealand Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Non-Fiction in recognition of hisoutstanding contribution to literature.
ISBN 9780648629702. Memo Review/Index Books. pb. 252 pages. 11 x 17 cm.
available