Herman Melville's Whaling Years

by Wilson Heflin, Mary K. Edwards, Thomas Farel Heffernan

Book Overview

Based on more than a half-century of research, Herman Melville's Whaling Years is an essential work for Melville scholars. In meticulous and thoroughly documented detail, it examines one of the most stimulating periods in the great author's life--the four years he spent aboard whaling vessels in the Pacific during the early 1840s. Melville would later draw repeatedly on these experiences in his writing, from his first successful novel, Typee,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826513824
• ISBN13: 9780826513823
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"