White-Jacket

Autor*innen

• Herman Melville

Parameter

• Abenteuer
• Amerikanische Literatur
• Belletristik
• Historische Romane
• Klassiker
• The world's classics

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In 1843, after three years of voyaging in the South Seas, Melville signed up as an ordinary seaman on the man-of-war United States, and headed for home. What he observed on that trip formed the basis of White-Jacket, a success both as a story and as an expos 'e of certain naval practices of which the public was only dimly aware.

• Sprache: Englisch