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A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
出版Harper, 1847
主題Fiction / LiteraryLiterary Criticism / General
ISBN14047399209781404739925
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hnsBAAAAQAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"Following the commercial and critical success of his first book, Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Seas adventure-romances with Omoo. Melville's second book chronicles the narrator's involvement in a mutiny aboard a South Seas whaling vessel, his incarceration in a Tahitian jail, and then his wanderings as an omoo, or rover, on the island of Eimeo (Moorea). Based on Melville's personal experience as a sailor on a South Pacific whaleship, Omoo is a first-person account of life as a sailor during the nineteenth century, filled with colorful characters and detailed descriptions of the far-flung locales of Polynesia."--BOOK JACKET.