... ves sel of old ferryman Sid Wagstaffe's dreams, in which he sails away in search of tangy adventure like a latter-day Joseph Conrad. He resents the way in which seafaring is now a tourist industry, but his pragmatic elder brother Robbo has become a landlubber ...

... verbal Odyssey centred upon Heiner Muller's version of Heracles' search for the Hydra, whose hardships are paralleled in Joseph Conrad's Congo Journal, palliated by a text extolling the pleasures of natural beauty. Its setting was a circle of sand, at whose ...