While the political novels of Anthony Trollope may serve as remote backgrounds for Conrad's attempt to explore in novelistic form the effects of a revolution upon people of various social strata, his most proximate source was Frederick Benton Williams' On Many Seas: The Life and Exploits of a Yankee Sailor which contains the story of a single-handed theft of a boat-load of silver ingots during a Latin-American revolution, a story Conrad.....
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