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The Rescue by Joseph Conrad

The Rescue
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Joseph Conrad's The Rescue is the third volume of a trilogy centered on Captain Tom Lingard. The others were Almayer's Folly and The Outcast of the Islands. Curiously, the three volumes were in reverse chronological order, with the action of The Rescue occurring first and Almayer's Folly last.

It took twenty years for Conrad to finish this volume as he laid it aside to write several of his other masterpieces. It has some problems, mostly the introduction of a privately owned yacht owned by a rich industrialist named Martin Travers and gone aground on a shoal. He is accompanied on the yacht by an all-white crew, as well as his wife Edith.

Lingard would probably have left the crew of the yacht to their own devices if it weren't for Edith Travers. She takes his breath away. When her husband and one of their passengers are spirited away by Malay pirates, his task becomes ever more complicated. He is involved in trying to assist a Wajo Prince and his sister attain control, but his efforts are divided as he must also negotiate for the release of the two white prisoners.

This is not the best of Conrad's novels, but I still found myself looking forward each day to reading more of the book's careful plotted chapters, almost sorrowing when I came to the end.

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Reading Progress

July 17, 2022 –Started Reading

July 17, 2022 – Shelved as:fiction

July 17, 2022 – Shelved as:oceania

July 17, 2022 –17.53% "The conviction that the yacht, and everything belonging to her, were in some indefinite but very real danger, took afresh a strong hold of Carter, and the persuasion that the master of the brig was going there to help did not by by any means assuage his alarm. The fact only served to complicate his uneasiness with a sense of mystery."

July 18, 2022 –52.01% "Some people go about the world with their eyes shut. The sea is free to all of us. Some work on it, and some play the fool on it—and I don't care. Only you may take it from me that I will let no man's play interfere with my work."

July 19, 2022 –73.56% "His natural impulse was to grapple with the circumstances, and that was what he was trying to do; but he missed now that sense of mastery which is half the battle. Conflict of some sort was the very essence of his life. But this was something he had never known before. This was a conflict within himself."

July 20, 2022 –Finished Reading

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