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Typhoon (novella)
''Typhoon'' is a novella by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and serialized in ''Pall Mall Magazine'' in January–March 1902. Its first book publication was in New York by Putnam in 1902; it was also published in Britain in ''Typhoon and Other Stories'' by Heinemann in 1903.
==Plot summary==
''Typhoon'' is a classic sea yarn, possibly based upon Conrad's actual experience of seaman's life, and probably on a real incident aboard of the real steamer ''John P. Best''. It describes how Captain MacWhirr sails the Siamese steamer ''Nan-Shan'' into a typhoon—a mature tropical cyclone of the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean. Other characters include the young Jukes - most probably an alter ego of Conrad from the time he had sailed under captain John McWhirr - and Solomon Rout, the chief engineer. The novella classically evokes the seafaring life at the turn of the century. While Macwhirr, who, according to Conrad, "never walked on this Earth" - is emotionally estranged from his family and crew, and though he refuses to consider an alternate course to skirt the typhoon, his indomitable will in the face of a superior natural force elicits grudging admiration.
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