Herman Melville, mariner and mystic.

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Herman Melville, mariner and mystic.

“A graphic picture of an old time American writer, of life in the South Seas, and of his own amazing experiences on the high seas used in Moby Dick and other books.”
— A.L.A. Catalog 1926

Publish Date
Publisher
Pageant Books
Language
English
Pages
399

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Table of Contents

1. Devil’s Advocate
2. Ghosts
3. Parents and Early Years
4. A Substitute for Pistol and Ball
5. Discoveries on Two Continents
6. Pedagogy, Pugilism and Letters
7. Blubber and Mysticism
8. Leviathan
9. The Pacific
10. Man-Eating Epicures – The Marquesas
11. Mutiny and Missionaries – Tahiti
12. On Board a Man-of-War
13. Into the Racing Tide
14. Across the Atlantic Again
15. A Neighbour of Hawthorne’s
16. The Great Refusal
17. The Long Quietus

Edition Notes

Includes bibliography.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
928.1
Library of Congress
PS2386 .W4 1961

The Physical Object

Pagination
399 p.
Number of pages
399

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL5775151M
Internet Archive
hermanmelvillema00weav
LCCN
59013250
OCLC/WorldCat
273501

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL156857W

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