During that time, Congo’s official name was Congo Free State and it served as King Leopold II of Belgium's private colony. Indeed, in 1890 Conrad sailed to Congo on a steamboat. His novels are mostly based on his personal experiences and adventures at sea and Heart of Darkness is not an exception. He was able to realize this dream after immigrating to England. Since his childhood, he was interested in sailing and discovering foreign lands so much that he said: “It was in 1868, when nine years old or thereabouts, that while looking at a map of Africa at the time and putting my finger on the blank space, I said to myself: ‘When I grow up I shall go there’” (Norton, p. English was his third language and he first encountered it at the age of eight while watching his father translate Shakespeare’s works in order to make a living. Conrad was born into a Polish family in Ukraine.
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