Omoo: a Real Romance of the South Seas
by Melville, Herman (Ed. by W. Clark Russell; Appendix by Marie Clothilde Balfour)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
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Melvilles continuing adventures in the South Seasnow for the first time in Penguin Classics 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 Melvilles 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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- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002711
- Title
- Omoo: a Real Romance of the South Seas
- Author
- Melville, Herman (Ed. by W. Clark Russell; Appendix by Marie Clothilde Balfour)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- George Routledge & Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [c1910]
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