ABSTRACT
Like Conrad, Cary became a writer relatively late in life and had an extensive and exciting career before publishing the first novel at the age of forty-four. 1 He worked with the British Red Cross during the Balkan War of 1912–13 and recorded his experiences in the posthumously published Memoirs of the Bobotes (1960). “I wanted the experience of war,” Cary says, “I thought there would be no more wars. And I had a certain romantic enthusiasm for the cause of the Montenegrins; in short I was young and eager for any sort of adventure.” 2
