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How was it possible for the son of Polish aristocrats to serve as a seaman on french ships ? That this man became Captain of the British Merchant Marine ? And how did it happen that he wrote world literature in the second foreign language he had learned - and became a master of the English language ? The biography of Joseph Conrad reads like one of his novels: full of restlessness, doubts and adventure, but also with the consequence of somebody searching desperately, an intellectual questioning everything, a man who knows exactly that 'being noble does not entitle you to anything'.
"If you would know the age of the earth, look upon the sea in a storm."