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Title	:	White-Jacket: The World in a Man-of-War
Author	:	Herman Melville
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	February 17th 2014 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform (first published 1849)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Adventure. Literature. American. Historical. Historical Fiction

White-Jacket: The World in a Man-of-War

Herman Melville

Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 3.78 | 696 Users | 87 Reviews

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Herman Melville wrote White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War during two months of intense work in the summer of 1849. He drew upon his memories of naval life, having spent fourteen months as an ordinary seaman aboard a frigate as it sailed the Pacific and made the homeward voyage around Cape Horn.

Already that same summer Melville had written Redburn, and he regarded the books as "two jobs, which I have done for money--being forced to it, as other men are to sawing wood." The reviewers were not as hard on White-Jacket as Melville himself was. The English liked its praise of British seamen. The Americans were more interested in Melville's attack on naval abuses, particularly flogging, and his advocacy of humanitarian causes. Soon Melville was acclaimed the best sea writer of the day.

Part autobiography, part epic fiction, White-Jacket remains a brilliantly imaginative social novel by one of the great writers of the sea. This text of the novel is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).

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Original Title:	White Jacket; or, the World in a Man-of-War
ISBN:	1495974219 (ISBN13: 9781495974212)

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In the navy. Best read as creative non-fiction.

You know how it goes. I took a sailing trip a few months ago so afterward I figured it was a good time to read Melville again. White Jacket alternates between descriptive expositions on various facets and crew members of the ship which are usually followed up with anecdotes and ruminations illuminating whatever the previous chapter sought to lay out for the reader. He's not trying to give you a seafaring epic but rather he's trying to show you the day to day existence of a Man of War ship in a

This is the book that helped ban flogging in the US Navy. An incredible book which you will be reading today. Do it!



An unspeakable problem looms for the book addict, it grows slowly at first then intensifies, since no cure will ever be found, but the reader can and should go on; continue their forward movement into the never-ending quest for knowledge and if I may be so ... presumptuous...enlightenment. No I'm not speaking of an illness of the body but of the soul...The final realization that a favorite writer of his or hers, has no more books to devour, none are left, the hand that wrote them will remain

Cross-posted from my blog: quietandbusy.blogspot.comI first came across White Jacket several years ago in a gigantic used bookstore in Florida. I hadn't heard of the story before, but the cover looked cool and I recognized Herman Melville's name, of course. I read Moby Dick in high school and really enjoyed it, so I figured I'd give this one a try. I put it on the American Authors section of my Classics Club list, and since it fit into the 19th Century Classic category of the Back to the

Melville never made it as a novelist--really: Moby Dick and his other "novels" failed, with a failure that still echoes. Possibly that's because he could never shape himself quite to the novel pattern. He enjoyed the facts too much--small wonder, with his own life constructed of facts almost too exotic to believe. He was one of a very few of his time strong enough to visit the far shores and talented enough to paint them, a very rugged, and very American, sort of genius. But this is too much