Youth and The End of the Tether

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Both of these stories sprang from Joseph Conrads own experience sailing in the Far East with the merchant navy. "For it can hardly be denied that it is not their own desserts that men are most proud of but rather of their prodigious luck of their marvelous fortune " wrote Conrad of YOUTH. In it he captures a young mans exhilaration in the face of danger and the unknown. THE END OF THE TETHER is of a different mold. Captain Whalley aging but still afloat compromises his principles without understanding what can follow. But life like the sea is unsparing and the captains fate arrives in due course served up with Conrads own brand of uncompromising logic.