Roger Osborne is Associate Professor at James Cook University, Australia. His research concentrates on Australian literature and British modernism seen through the lens of book history, magazine culture and scholarly editing. He is a contributing editor to the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad. Roger completed his first edition, Under Western Eyes, in 2013. His work on the trans-national nature of Australian print culture has been published widely, and his co-authored book, Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s–1940s, the first of two projected volumes, was published in 2018. Hugh Epstein is the Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK). He has contributed numerous journal articles on Conrad and on Hardy and has spoken at many conferences worldwide on both authors. His book Hardy, Conrad and the Senses was published in 2020.

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• List of illustrations; General editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations and note on editions; Introduction; Nostromo, A Tale of the Seaboard; The texts: an essay; Apparatus; Textual notes; Appendices; Explanatory notes; Glossaries; Map.