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OMOO (oh-MOO)
A
Melville non-fiction work about a whaling vessel and exploring
Tahiti
Common
clues: "Typee"
sequel; Melville novel; 1847 Melville work; Melville effort;
Melville novel set in Tahiti; Novel of the South Seas; Melville
romance
Crossword
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5 times a year
News:
Seduced
by south seas
Video:
Herman
Melville: The Real Story
A whale ship
was my Yale College and my Harvard. – Herman Melville
Herman
Melville
Omoo
was
Herman Melville's sequel to Typee, and, as such, was also
nonfiction. After leaving Nukuheva, the main character ships
aboard a whaling vessel which makes its way to Tahiti, after
which there is a mutiny and the majority of the crew are
imprisoned on Tahiti. The book follows the actions of Melville as
he explores Tahiti and remarks on their customs and way of life.
CHAPTER
I.
MY
RECEPTION ABOARD
IT
WAS the middle of a bright tropical afternoon that we made good
our
escape
from the bay. The vessel we sought lay with her main-topsail
aback
about a league from the land, and was the only object that
broke
the broad expanse of the ocean.
On
approaching, she turned out to be a small, slatternly-looking
craft,
her hull and spars a dingy black, rigging all slack and
bleached
nearly white, and everything denoting an ill state of
affairs
aboard. The four boats hanging from her sides proclaimed her
a
whaler. Leaning carelessly over the bulwarks were the sailors,
wild,
haggard-looking fellows in Scotch caps and faded blue frocks;
some
of them with cheeks of a mottled bronze, to which sickness soon
changes
the rich berry-brown of a seaman's complexion in the tropics.
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OMOO
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