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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
by Melville, Herman
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- Publisher's brown cloth, gilt-decorated spine, upper cover with gilt vignette of ship, marbled endpapers. Wear to spine ends wit
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847. First American edition. Frontispiece chart. xv, [i], [17]-389, [1]; [xv]-xxiii, [i] (ads); 16 (ads) pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt-decorated spine, upper cover with gilt vignette of ship, marbled endpapers. Wear to spine ends with closed tear to head of spine, corners worn, light foxing to text throughout. First American edition. Frontispiece chart. xv, [i], [17]-389, [1]; [xv]-xxiii, [i] (ads); 16 (ads) pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The first American edition of Melville's second novel, in the publisher's cloth binding. BAL 13656
Synopsis
Melville’s continuing adventures in the South Seas—now for the first time in Penguin Classics 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.
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- Title
- Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
- Author
- Melville, Herman
- Format/Binding
- Frontispiece chart. xv, [i], [17]-389, [1]; [xv]-xxiii, [i] (ads); 16 (ads) pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Publisher's brown cloth, gilt-decorated spine, upper cover with gilt vignette of ship, marbled endpapers. Wear to spine ends wit
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1847
- Keywords
- American | Herman Melville
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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