Author: Herman Melville
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Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Omoo Adventures in the South Seas This novel is a straightforward first-person account of adventure by a sensitive, well-read sailor called consecutively Typee and Paul.Font used in this annotated edition is Baskerville - 12.
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849603652
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Languages : en
Pages : 271
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This is the extended and annotated edition including an extensive biographical annotation about the author and his life. Omoo: A Narrative of the South Seas (pronounced OH-moo) is Herman Melville's sequel to Typee, and, as such, was also autobiographical. After leaving Nuku Hiva, the main character ships aboard a whaling vessel which makes its way to Tahiti, after which there is a mutiny and the majority of the crew are imprisoned on Tahiti. The book follows the actions of the narrator as he explores Tahiti and remarks on their customs and way of life. (from wikipedia.com)
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530794171
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Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is the second book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1847, and a sequel to his first South Sea narrative Typee, also based on the author's experiences in the South Pacific. After leaving the island of Nuku Hiva, the main character ships aboard a whaling vessel that makes its way to Tahiti, after which there is a mutiny and the majority of the crew are imprisoned on Tahiti.
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN: 9781421979625
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Author: Herman Melville
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Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is the second book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1847, and a sequel to his first South Sea narrative Typee, also based on the author's experiences in the South Pacific.
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143104926
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Melville’s continuing adventures in the South Seas Following the commercial and critical success of Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Sea adventure-romances with Omoo. Named after the Polynesian term for a rover, or someone who roams from island to island, Omoo chronicles the tumultuous events aboard a South Sea whaling vessel and is based on Melville’s personal experiences as a crew member on a ship sailing the Pacific. From recruiting among the natives for sailors to handling deserters and even mutiny, Melville gives a first-person account of life as a sailor during the nineteenth century filled with colorful characters and vivid descriptions of the far-flung locales of Polynesia. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author: Herman Melville
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Languages : en
Pages : 324
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IT WAS the middle of a bright tropical afternoon that we made good our escape from the bay.The vessel we sought lay with her main-topsail aback about a league from the land, and was the onlyobject that broke the broad expanse of the ocean.On approaching, she turned out to be a small, slatternly-looking craft, her hull and spars a dingyblack, rigging all slack and bleached nearly white, and everything denoting an ill state of affairsaboard. The four boats hanging from her sides proclaimed her a whaler. Leaning carelessly over thebulwarks were the sailors, wild, haggard-looking fellows in Scotch caps and faded blue frocks; someof them with cheeks of a mottled bronze, to which sickness soon changes the rich berry-brown of aseaman's complexion in the tropics.On the quarter-deck was one whom I took for the chief mate. He wore a broad-brimmedPanama hat, and his spy-glass was levelled as we advanced.When we came alongside, a low cry ran fore and aft the deck, and everybody gazed at us withinquiring eyes. And well they might. To say nothing of the savage boat's crew, panting withexcitement, all gesture and vociferation, my own appearance was calculated to excite curiosity. Arobe of the native cloth was thrown over my shoulders, my hair and beard were uncut, and Ibetrayed other evidences of my recent adventure. Immediately on gaining the deck, they beset me onall sides with questions, the half of which I could not answer, so incessantly were they put.As an instance of the curious coincidences which often befall the sailor, I must here mentionthat two countenances before me were familiar. One was that of an old man-of-war's-man, whoseacquaintance I had made in Rio de Janeiro, at which place touched the ship in which I sailed fromhome. The other was a young man whom, four years previous, I had frequently met in a sailorboarding-house in Liverpool. I remembered parting with him at Prince's Dock Gates, in the midstof a swarm of police-officers, trackmen, stevedores, beggars, and the like. And here we wereagain: -years had rolled by, many a league of ocean had been traversed, and we were throwntogether under circumstances which almost made me doubt my own existence.But a few moments passed ere I was sent for into the cabin by the captain.He was quite a young man, pale and slender, more like a sickly counting-house clerk than a bluffsea-captain. Bidding me be seated, he ordered the steward to hand me a glass of Pisco. In the state Iwas, this stimulus almost made me delirious; so that of all I then went on to relate concerning myresidence on the island I can scarcely remember a word. After this I was asked whether I desired to"ship"; of course I said yes; that is, if he would allow me to enter for one cruise, engaging todischarge me, if I so desired, at the next port. In this way men are frequently shipped on boardwhalemen in the South Seas. My stipulation was acceded to, and the ship's articles handed me tosign
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Xist Publishing
ISBN: 1681952238
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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Being a Seaman in the 19th-Century "Dashing forever against their coral rampart, the breakers looked in the distance, like a line of rearing white chargers reined in, tossing their white manes, and bridling with foam." - Herman Melville, Omoo Omoo is basically a fiction-driven adventure novel based on Herman Melville’s South Pacific seamanship experience. The novel is a sequel to Typee; this time, the action is set on the remote islands of Tahiti and includes mutiny, recruiting new members, facing cannibalistic local tribes and handling the mutineers. How will the story end? Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes
Author: erman erman Melville
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781979898799
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Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Named after the Polynesian term for a rover, or someone who roams from island to island, Omoo chronicles the tumultuous events aboard a South Sea whaling vessel and is based on Melville's personal experiences as a crew member on a ship sailing the Pacific. From recruiting among the natives for sailors to handling deserters and even mutiny, Melville gives a first-person account of life as a sailor during the nineteenth century filled with colourful characters and vivid descriptions of the far-flung locales of Polynesia.
