Novels describing the adventures of white men in the tropics have fascinated western readers since the publication of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe in 1719. Herman Melville romanticizes his account of the Marquesans in Typee (1846). Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island (1883) describes the adventures of the boy Jim and the pirate Long John Silver. Joseph Conrad, who explores the concept of courage in Lord Jim (1900), treats both racial and economic exploitation in Heart of Darkness (1902). Nordoff and Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty (1932) describes the life of sailors in.....
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