End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad

Conrads aim was by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel . . . before all, to make you see Heart of Darkness, his exploration of European colonialism in Africa and of elusive human values, embodies more profoundly than almost any other modern fiction the difficulty of seeing, its relativity and shifting compromise. Portraying a young mans first sea-voyage to the East in Youth, an unenlightened maturity in Heart of Darkness, and the blind old age of Captain Whalley in The End of the Tether.