In his "Authors Note" in this edition of Nostromo, Joseph Conrad provides a detailed explanation of the inspirational origins of his novel. There he relates how, as a young man of about seventeen, while serving aboard a ship in the Gulf of Mexico, he heard the story of a man who had stolen, singlehandedly, "a whole lighterfull of silver". As Conrad goes on to relate, he forgot about the story until some twentyfive years later when he came across a travelogue in a usedbook shop in which the author related how he worked for years aboard a schooner whose master claimed to be that very thief who had stolen the silver.

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