Cannibalism and the Greely Arctic Expedition: A New Source for Joseph Conrad’s “Falk”

The sources of Conrad's novels and short stories have always excited the interest of critics and scholars. That of "Falk: A Reminiscence" has, however, never been studied in depth. The aim of this paper is to present evidence to show that a possible source of "Falk" can be found in newspaper reports of the 1881 Greely Arctic Expedition that Conrad may have known about and followed in the press.