Omoo · A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (Penguin Classics)
- Authors
- Melville, Herman
- Publisher
- Penguin Group (USA)
- Tags
- classics , adventure , travel
- ISBN
- 9781101201473
- Date
- 1847-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.51 MB
- Lang
- en
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.