description: The man who suggested Willems to me was not particularly interesting in himself. My interest was aroused by his dependent position, his strange, dubious status of a mistrusted, disliked, worn-out European living on the reluctant toleration of that Settlement hidden in the heart of the forest-land, up that sombre stream which our ship was the only white men's ship to visit. With his hollow, clean-shaved cheeks, a heavy grey moustache and eyes without any expression whatever, clad always in a spotless sleeping suit much be-frogged in front, which left his lean neck wholly uncovered, and with his bare feet in a pair of straw slippers, he wandered silently amongst the houses in daylight, almost as dumb as an animal and apparently much more homeless.
language: English
title: An Outcast of the Islands
titlecomplete: An Outcast of the Islands
characters: Kaspar Almayer, Lakamba, Peter Willems, Tom Lingard, Babalatchi, Nina Almayer
genres: Fiction, Adventure, English Literature, British Literature, Polish Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 833
places: Malaysia
series: Lingard Trilogy
publisher: Amereon, Limited