White Jacket, or the World in a Man-Of-War: Volume Five, Scholarly Edition by Herman Melville

White Jacket, or the World in a Man-Of-War: Volume Five, Scholarly Edition

Herman Melville

499 pages first pub 1849 (editions)

fiction classics adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
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Herman Melville wrote White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War during two months of intense work in the summer of 1849. He drew upon his memories of naval life, having spent fourteen months as an ordinary seaman aboard a frigate as it sailed th...

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