Joseph Conrad's Eastern Voyages Bio25 winner of the Costa Children’s

winner of the Costa Children’s Book Award

Mary Oliver touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse

’ Melody Pond

but beneath the songs lay a complicated and volatile personality

Joseph Conrad's Eastern Voyages Bio25 winner of the Costa Children’sThe life of Jzef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski reads like an adventure story, an adventure story written by somebody like Joseph Conrad. The young Conrad dreamed of a life at sea and eventually became a British merchant seaman, working his way up from apprentice to captain on classic three masted square rigged barques. He would also become one of the most important novelists in the English language, and almost half of his lifes work is set in Southeast