โ Scribed by Herman Melville
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Melville's continuing adventures in the South Seas--now 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 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.
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Melville's continuing adventures in the South Seas'now 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
'It's a lost world out there'Hal and Roger Hunt sink deep into danger when a specimen-collecting trip takes them into the lost world of the South Seas. But the deep-sea trawl has a hidden agenda - a top secret mission for Professor Stuyvesant, and his scientific experiments in Pearl Lagoon . . .
**An outrageous, fantastical, uncategorizable novel of obsession, adventure, and coconuts ** In 1902, a radical vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg named August Engelhardt set sail for what was then called the Bismarck Archipelago. His destination: the island Kabakon. His goal: to found a colony
The house of pride -- Koolau the leper -- Good-bye, Jack -- The seed of McCoy -- The house of Mapuhi -- The heathen -- Mauki -- A son of the sun -- The devils of Fuatino -- The feathers of the sun -- On the Makaloa mat -- The tears of Ah Kim -- The bones of Kahekili -- Shin-bones -- When Alice told
The house of pride -- Koolau the leper -- Good-bye, Jack -- The seed of McCoy -- The house of Mapuhi -- The heathen -- Mauki -- A son of the sun -- The devils of Fuatino -- The feathers of the sun -- On the Makaloa mat -- The tears of Ah Kim -- The bones of Kahekili -- Shin-bones -- When Alice told