Typhoon

by Joseph Conrad, Tim Herdon Narrated by Multiple Narrators

Overview

'There's some bad weather out there,' Captain MacWhirr said to himself just before he sailed his ship, the Nan-Shan, into the middle of the most terrible storm in the South China Sea. The typhoon brings out the best in some men on the ship, and the worst in others. Can MacWhirr bring the ship through the storm safely? And what will happen to all the poor Chinese workers travelling home down in the ship's hold?

Editorial Reviews

David Hagberg

If you liked The Perfect Storm, you will be blown away by Typhoon, Conrad's classic tale.
—USA Today

From the Publisher

"Conrad is quite simply the master of all who try to reflect the world of the sea in the mirror of the written word....No one has limned more vividly the courage, the skill, the dreams, and terrors of those who set out upon the waters. He is the Captain." -David Poyer, author of The Med.

AUG/SEP 03 - AudioFile

This classic sea yarn of 1903, in which a fairly stupid captain somehow pilots his steamer through a horrendous storm, is remarkable for its evocation of life aboard ship, its quirky eloquence, and its psychological insight. None of these qualities pertain to narrator Brick's reading. He is "phoning it in" here, an unusual defect in this usually excellent young reader. Y.R. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169435382
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/24/2009
Series:	Dominoes Level 2
Edition description:	Unabridged

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