| 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.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1910 and 1914 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | Orlestone nr. Ashford Kent Capel House |
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| Reader: | Joseph Conrad |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 3 Dec 1857 |
| Socio-economic group: | Gentry Gentry 'Szlachta', or Polish landed gentry/nobility |
| Occupation: | Master mariner and author |
| Religion: | Roman Catholic |
| Country of origin: | Poland |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
John Conrad, Joseph's Conrad's younger son |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| 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 details: | first published Macmillan, 1869, two volumes, revised through 10 editions, last in 1890 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 28966 | |
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| Author: | 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://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28966, accessed: 23 March 2023 | |
| 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). |
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