Rumour has it that musicians on the Titanic kept playing until the very end. I must confess that there were moments when I wanted some fairy musicians to start playing on the Nan-Shan - the steamer sailing the China seas [sic] during the season of typhoons. Alas, the vicious howls of the wind were the only sound that was available on this literary journey. Typhoon by Charles Cumming was a timely read for me. Set during and following the British hand over of Hong Kong to the Chinese government, it gave me some insights into the anxieties, promises, and current tensions related to that region today. As a work of fiction, I realize it's not set in reality, but I'm confident there's truth to certain aspects of it, specifically the political environment and the jarring (eventually) transition from British rule to Chinese authoritarian rule. With all that's happening in the news right now, it seems some of the concerns were well founded. Wing Commander Mike Sutton OBE spent two years at RAF Lossiemouth where he was deployed to Cyprus in 2015 as part of the operation against ISIS. Mr Sutton's book 'Typhoon' is the first ever inside account of Operation SHADER, the British participation in the war against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. J. Conrad a mai scris numeroase nuvele ca: "An outpost of progress", "Freya of the Seven Isles" sau "Because of the dollars". La lunga, eterna tensione di una tempesta produce questo effetto: l'attesa interminabile della catastrofe culminante. Ed è fisicamente spossante il semplice avvinghiarsi alla vita in quel tumulto eccessivo."

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En el caso de Conrad, no es esta su única novela que transcurra sobre los mares, podemos citar Lord Jim, El compañero secreto, Victoria, Entre mareas e incluso su más famosa novela, El corazón de las tinieblas, aun que esta se desarrolla en el río. Told partly through Lasker (in first person) and by others (in third person), the story unfolds in 1997 in the weeks before the official handover of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China. Joe Lennox is a NOC (non-official cover) agent, working for a logistics company, and describes how he was recruited by MI6 at Oxford and persuaded his girlfriend, Isabella, to join him in Hong Kong, she unaware of the double life he is leading. Su tutto e su tutti si staglia dapprima discreta, poi via via sempre più intensa e maestosa, una delle figure più suggestive della letteratura di ogni tempo: lui, il capitano Mac Whirr, un eroe al di fuori degli schemi rappresentativi e dei canoni standardizzati. Epcot: Take a glimpse into the wonders of tomorrow at Future World, or spend a day travelling through 11 different countries at World Showcase They are called typhoons . . . The mate did not seem to like it . . . Not in books . . . Couldn't think of letting it go on. . . .”

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Cumming is a master at creating personal torment in his characters. So much so that you can’t help but feel sorry for them. The scene at Miles’ apartment, for example, was portrayed so vividly that The hurricane, with its power to madden the seas, to sink ships, to uproot trees, to overturn strong walls and dash the very birds of the air to the ground, had found this taciturn man in its path, and, doing its utmost, had managed to wring out a few words. Before the renewed wrath of winds swooped on his ship, Captain MacWhirr was moved to declare, in a tone of vexation, as it were: “I wouldn't like to lose her.” The second mate: "He was one of those men who...are competent enough, appear hopelessly hard up, show no evidence of any kind of vice, and carry about with them all the signs of manifest failure." I found this to be unexpectedly good. I say unexpectedly because I assume it’s considered one of Conrad’s minor works.Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) was a Polish-born English novelist who today is most famous for Heart of Darkness, his fictionalized account of Colonial Africa. All of the violence takes place off screen, with people finding out about others being killed, beaten or brutalized after the fact. I think this is part of the narration because its supposed to be from the reporter. Further we never feel that Lennox is in danger. Maybe that is because of the plot devise of starting the novel, with Lennox having escaped some kind of explosion. Nuvela "Taifunul" a aparut in 1903 si intriga ne plaseaza la bordul vasului 'Nan-Shan' al carui capitan este MacWhirr. La conducerea navei el este secondat de tanarul ofiter Jukes. Nan-Shan navigheaza in apele Chinei si se indreapta spre portul Fuciou din Taiwan transportand marfuri dar si 200 de hamali chinezi care se intorc acasa dupa mai multi ani de munca grea prestata in coloniile de la tropice. Ei traverseaza marea tocmai in anotimpul in care bantuie taifunul (tai = mare, fun = vant - in chineza) si cand se lasa seara toate semnele meteorologice arata ca unul se apropie de vas.