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Melville at Sea.(Herman Melville, A Biography, Volume 2, 1851-1891)

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From: The Nation
Date: 20020520
Author:WINEAPPLE, BRENDA

 
HERMAN MELVILLE, A Biography, Volume 2, 1851-1891. 
By Hershel Parker. Johns Hopkins. 997 pp. $45.

In 1851, when the 32-year-old Herman Melville published his masterpiece Moby-Dick, he was already known as a man who'd consorted with cannibals. His first book, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846), was an international sensation. A fictional travelogue based on his adventures, some of them sexual, in the Marquesas Islands, it offended genteel Christians and sold pretty well, so Melville dipped into his escapades again for Omoo (1847), more tales from the South Seas, and the ...

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