White jacket : or the world in a man-of-war

Melville, Herman (1819-1891)

Edité par Oxford University Pres - 1992

In 1843, after three years of voyaging in the South Seas, Melville signed up as an ordinary seaman on the man-of-war United States, and headed for home. What he observed on that trip formed the basis of White-Jacket, a success both as a story and as an expos 'e of certain naval practices of which the public was only dimly aware.

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