Omoo : a narrative of adventures in the South Seas / by Herman Melville Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
Subjects
Polynesia -- Description and travel; Polynesia -- Description and travel -- Fiction; Oceania - Fiction.
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"Following the commercial and critical success of his first book, Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Seas adventure-romances with Omoo. Melville's second book chronicles the narrator's involvement in a mutiny aboard a South Seas whaling vessel, his incarceration in a Tahitian jail, and then his wanderings as an omoo, or rover, on the island of Eimeo (Moorea). Based on Melville's personal experience as a sailor on a South Pacific whaleship, Omoo is a first-person account of life as a sailor during the nineteenth century, filled with colorful characters and detailed descriptions of the far-flung locales of Polynesia."--BOOK JACKET.
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http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/1401016
Work ID
1401016

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