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Melville, Poland, and Tall Ships

The Sixth International Melville Society Conference, “Hearts of Darkness: Melville and Conrad in the Space of World Culture,” held on August 4–7, 2007, brought together nearly 100 scholars from 18 countries to explore the writings of two authors linked by their life at sea and their experience of distant cultures. The conference was scheduled to coincide with the “Tall Ships Races” in the Polish city of Szczecin, a former Hanseatic League port on the Baltic Sea. Those ships, all sailing vessels with masts stories high, were a vivid reminder of the era before steam-ships that Melville knew first-hand, while Szczecin, with its Polish roots and Swedish, Prussian, and