[Gutenberg 10712] • White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War
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- Authors
- Melville, Herman
- Publisher
- BOMC
- Tags
- naval -- 19th century -- fiction , flagellation -- fiction , warships -- fiction , adventure , classics , sea stories , sailors -- fiction , naval discipline -- fiction , united states -- history
- Date
- 1849-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.37 MB
- Lang
- en
"White Jacket" written by Herman Melville (best known for his classic whaling novel) was first published in 1850 and is considered to be a semi-biographical book, written from Melville's own personal experiences while returning home to the Atlantic Coast from the South Seas with the American Navy on a man-o'-war vessel. In the note preceding the novel, Melville states, "In the year 1843 I shipped as 'ordinary seaman' on board of a United States frigate then lying in a harbor of the Pacific Ocean. After remaining in this frigate for more than a year, I was discharged from the service . . ."(less)