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Heart of Darkness, Paperback by Conrad, Joseph; Sir Angels (COR), Like New Us.... Heart of Darkness, Paperback by Conrad, Joseph; Sir Angels (COR), ISBN 1542370620, ISBN-13 9781542370622, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Aboard the Nellie, anchored in the River Thames near Gravesend, England, Charles Marlow tells his fellow sailors about the events that led to his appointment as captain of a river steamboat for an ivory trading company. As a child, Marlow had been fascinated by "the blank spaces" on maps, particularly by the biggest, which by the time he had grown up was no longer blank but turned into "a place of darkness". Yet there remained a big river, "resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country and its tail lost in the depths of the land. Heart of Darkness, Paperback by Conrad, Joseph; Sir Angels (COR), ISBN 1542370620, ISBN-13 9781542370622, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Aboard the Nellie, anchored in the River Thames near Gravesend, England, Charles Marlow tells his fellow sailors about the events that led to his appointment as captain of a river steamboat for an ivory trading company. As a child, Marlow had been fascinated by "the blank spaces" on maps, particularly by the biggest, which by the time he had grown up was no longer blank but turned into "a place of darkness". Yet there remained a big river, "resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country and its tail lost in the depths of the land.