In this book, Conrad is quite simply the master of all who try to reflect the world of the sea in the mirror of the written word. No one has limned more vividly the courage, the skill, the dreams, and terrors of those who set out upon the waters. He is the Captain.

Typhoon is a short story written by Joseph Conrad about the world of the sea. It depicts how theCaptain Mac Whirr hold on his own biasis when typhoon was coming but somehow survived it. The author is a master of language with a brief but classic book, bringing the readers to a different experience.

Joseph Conrad（3 December 1857 – 3 August 1940) was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England.He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English sensibility into English literature.