Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Winslow Homer and Ivan Aivazovsky. Melville and a shipmate are put in irons for refusing duty aboard a whaler, jailed by a comic English consul in Tahiti, escape, and go beachcombing across the island — planting potatoes, dodging missionaries and watching a culture being dismantled by people who mean well. He had done all of it himself two years earlier; the sequel to Typee sold on the scandal, and the London missionary societies wrote furious letters. Fifty-seven plates by painters including Winslow Homer and Ivan Aivazovsky follow the voyage itself, from calm water and stowing sail to shipwreck on stormy seas.
Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Winslow Homer and Ivan Aivazovsky. Melville and a shipmate are put in irons for refusing duty aboard a whaler, jailed by a comic English consul in Tahiti, escape, and go beachcombing across the island — planting ...
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Herman Melville (1819–1891) was an American novelist and short story writer. He drew on his years at sea for novels including Typee (1846), Omoo (1847), and Redburn (1849), and later published the story collection The Piazza Tales (1856). From 1866 to 1885 he worked as a customs inspector in New York City.
Herman Melville (1819–1891) was an American novelist and short story writer. He drew on his years at sea for novels including Typee (1846), Omoo (1847), and Redburn (1849), and later published the story collection The Piazza Tales (1856). From 1866 to 1885 he worked as a customs inspector in New ...
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