Often named as Conrad's best book..... But if someone can understand what it is all about, he is a better man.... In any case it is a good adventure story....
Jim is chief mate on the steamship Patna. During a voyage towards Mecca, with its cargo of pilgrims, disaster occurs when the ship strikes a submerged object......
Who better to challenge the crew of the Narcissus with his death-agony than someone they see as a racial type but are forced to understand as a man?...
