In Search of Conrad

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First published in 1991, Gavin Young_s hugely acclaimed In Search of Conrad was joint winner of the 1992 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.

_Part-mariner_s log and part-detective story, [In Search of Conrad] brilliantly evokes the Far Eastern landscapes fixed forever in our imaginations by Conrad_s novels. But above all Young makes us realize that the world Conrad described nearly a century ago is still there _ the most pleasurable and exciting book I have read this year._ J. G. Ballard, Daily Telegraph

_Young_s passion for Conrad and his stories blazes from every porthole._ John Carey, Sunday Times

_Young has an eye for atmosphere; he is marvellous on Singapore as her past impinges on the present, myriad streets stalked by ghosts from the nineteenth century _ In Search of Conrad is both scholarly and enthralling - always vivid, and often a hoot to read _ better still it may set you to reading Conrad again._ Independent

_Gavin Young has managed to write something rare in recent literature - a happy book about the Third World which also has the ring of truth.' Jonathan Raban, Independent on Sunday

Author Bio

Gavin Young (1929-2001) was a journalist, writer, and briefly a member of MI6. As a journalist, he was most associated with the Observer, being in the words of Mark Frankland's obituary 'a star foreign correspondent'. When disenchantment with journalism set in he turned to the writing of books. The two most famous ones are Slow Boats to China and its sequel Slow Boats Home. He himself had a particular affection for two later books In Search of Conrad (winner of the Thomas Cook Book Award) and A Wavering Grace. These and Beyond Lion Rock, From Sea to Shining Sea, Return to the Marshes and Worlds Apart are all being reissued in Faber Finds.