Record Number: 28966
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'At other times he would tell me about the Malay Archipelago and the Malays and show me pictures in A. R. Wallace's book about that part of the world. [...] He would read to me about far away places, explaining how the natives built their houses on poles driven into the river beds of eastern rivers.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1910 and 1914
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:Orlestone nr. Ashford
Kent
Capel House
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:3 Dec 1857
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
Gentry 'Szlachta', or Polish landed gentry/nobility
Master mariner and author
Religion:Roman Catholic
Country of Origin:Poland
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
John Conrad, Joseph's Conrad's younger son
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Malay Archipelago The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise
Genre:Geography / Travel, Science, Natural history
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsfirst published Macmillan, 1869, two volumes, revised through 10 editions, last in 1890
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:28966
Source:John Conrad
Editor:n/a
Title:Joseph Conrad: Times Remembered
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1981
Vol:n/a
Page:25, 101-2
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
John Conrad, Joseph Conrad: Times Remembered , (Cambridge, 1981), p. 25, 101-2, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28966, accessed: 03 May 2024
Additional Comments:
These are two of a number of references, though there are none specifically by name in Conrad's letters, to his serial reading of Wallace's 'The Malay Archipelago. It was said to be 'a constant companion of Conrad's from the mid 1890s onward' (p.304 Knowles and Moore, 2000).