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Omoo : a narrative of adventures in the South Seas / Herman Melville ; introduction and notes by Mary K. Bercaw Edwards.
- Title
- Omoo : a narrative of adventures in the South Seas / Herman Melville ; introduction and notes by Mary K. Bercaw Edwards.
- Author
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
- Publication
- New York : Penguin Books, 2007.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Edwards, Mary K. Bercaw
- Description
- xxxv, 374 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Penguin classics
- Subject
- Polynesia > Description and travel > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Adventure fiction
- Fiction
- Note
- Originally published: Harper & Brothers, 1847.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0143104926
- 9780143104926
- LCCN
- ^^2006050737
- OCLC
- 71241994
- SCSB-12325204
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library