品牌：Herman Melville
基本信息
·出版社：Penguin Classics
·页码：416 页码
·出版日：2007年
·ISBN：0143104926
·条码：9780143104926
·装帧：平装
·英语：英语
·丛书名：Penguin Classics
内容简介
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Melville’s continuing adventures in the South Seas—now for the first time in Penguin ClassicsFollowing the commercial and critical success ofTypee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Sea adventure-romances withOmoo. Named after the Polynesian term for a rover, or someone who roams from island to island,Omoochronicles 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.
作者简介
Herman Melville(1819–1891), author ofMoby-Dick, Typee, andBilly Budd, among others, is considered one of the greatest American novelists.
Mary K. Bercaw Edwardsis associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut, past president of the Melville Society, and author ofMelville’s Sources. As a young woman, she sailed around the world aboard a 38-foot sailing vessel and spent much time in the South Pacific. In addition to teaching and scholarship, she now works high aloft on the only wooden whale ship left in the world, theCharles W. Morgan, berthed at Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Connecticut.
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