Books with title Typhoon Fury

"Typhoon" is a novel that belongs to Joseph Conrad's early works. Like most of his books it talks about the sea, the water element and the man's struggle with it.McVeer, the protagonist, is a captain of a steamer 'Nyan-Shan'. A truly phlegmatic and a prosaic person, he lacks virtually any abstract thinking and imagination. But this is true only at a first glance. A horrific storm sets challenges not only for the captain, who transforms literally in front of the eyes, but also for the entire crew. Will they survive through the ambush of the element? Will the ship stand?Pretty illustrations by Dmitrii Rybalko provide you with new impressions from reading this legendary story.

This novel is about one unremarkable steamship captain, pitted against a typhoon of incredible fury. Captain Macwhirr is the captain of the Nan-shan. He has a reputation as a solid, steadfast man. So, when multiple clues start pointing to trouble ahead and his second-in-chief cautions him, he is only moderately concerned and unwilling to change course and lose precious time and money - a decision that may prove fatal for him and his two hundred Chinese workers...

Typhon is a classic story of the sea. The long story describes the exploits of Captain MacWhirr in dealing with a tropical typhoon under the command of the steamer Nan-Shan. The novel is set in a ship between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. MacWhirr, a stolid man, shy and simple, ignored by his family, exploited by his wife and mocked by his crew, refuses to change course to avoid the arrival of a typhoon: however, his iron determination in facing him redeem him in the eyes of his subjected.

Joseph Conrad's long experience as a working seaman enriched and deepened his literary gifts, making him the most brilliant and convincing writer of seafaring's greatest age. In this novella he makes deft use of the maritime setting to enact moral dramas of men tested by the elements and by one another. Typhoon clearely shares autobiographical origins in Conrad's experience at sea and his exile from Poland, the country of his birth. It is the gripping story of a steamship captain who stubbornly steers into a major tempest and the crew's ensuing struggle to survive the raging waters. A masterpiece of literature.

Captain MacWhirr, of the steamer Nan-Shan, had a physiognomy that, in the order of material appearances, was the exact counterpart of his mind: it presented no marked characteristics of firmness or stupidity; it had no pronounced characteristics whatever; it was simply ordinary, irresponsive, and unruffled.The only thing his aspect might have been said to suggest, at times, was bashfulness; because he would sit, in business offices ashore, sunburnt and smiling faintly, with downcast eyes. When he raised them, they were perceived to be direct in their glance and of blue colour. His hair was fair and extremely fine, clasping from temple to temple the bald dome of his skull in a clamp as of fluffy silk. The hair of his face, on the contrary, carroty and flaming, resembled a growth of copper wire clipped short to the line of the lip; while, no matter how close he shaved, fiery metallic gleams passed, when he moved his head, over the surface of his cheeks.