White-Jacket or The World in a Man-of-War by Herman Melville

White-Jacket or The World in a Man-of-War

Herman Melville

441 pages first pub 1849 (editions)

fiction classics adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
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In 1843, after years of voyaging in the South Seas, Herman Melville signed up as a seaman on the man-of-war UNITED STATES, headed for home. What he observed formed the basis for this expose of autocratic practices which meted out to white men on b...

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