This book begins with five men relaxing on a ship while being held together by "the bond of the sea."
This book begins with five men relaxing on a ship while being held together by "the bond of the sea." Later in  the opening chapter, one character recalls that at one time the place where he sits was "one of the dark places of the Earth." One criticism of this work argues that the author of it is a "bloody racist" due to his inexplicable "fixation on blackness"; that criticism was titled ‘An Image of Africa" and was written by Chinua Achebe. For 10 points, the  ship the Nellie is featured in this work by Joseph Conrad which details an unnamed narrator's story about Charles Marlowe's adventure up the Congo River to find the enigmatic Kurtz.
This book begins with five men relaxing on a ship while being held together by "the bond of the sea."
Heart of Darkness