In this image we see Omoo in stocks, along with two shipmates. Omoo or “A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas,” is a novel by the American novelist Herman Melville. Published in 1847, it was a sequel to Melville’s novel Typee. Based on his own experiences in the South Pacific, this episodic novel, in a more comical vein than that of Typee, tells of the narrator’s participation in a mutiny on a whale ship and his subsequent wanderings in Tahiti with the ship’s former doctor, Long Ghost. Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Rena
In this image we see Omoo in stovks, along with two shipmates. Omoo or “A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas,” is a novel by the American novelist Herman Melville. Published in 1847, it was a sequel to Melville’s novel Typee. Based on his own experiences in the South Pacific, this episodic novel, in a more comical vein than that of Typee, tells of the narrator’s participation in a mutiny on a whale ship and his subsequent wanderings in Tahiti with the ship’s former doctor, Long Ghost. Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick; Typee (a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia), Omoo, and Billy Budd. The illustrator is Mead Schaeffer.
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