Omoo
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Publication
2000 - Dover Publications, Mineola, N.Y, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
74,750 words, Guess
Page Count
299 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveomoo0000melv
- ISBN-100486408736
- ISBN-139780486408736
- Goodreads1270367
- Library of Congress Control Number99043708
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780486408736
- Open LibraryOL45951M
Classifications
- DDC813/.3
- LCCPS2384 .O6 2000
- LCCPS2384.O6
Description
Melville's continuing adventures in the South Seas—now for the first time in Penguin ClassicsFollowing 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.
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