{"product_id":"redburn-his-first-voyage-by-herman-melville-9781542634144","title":"Redburn. His First Voyage. by: Herman Melville ( semi-autobiographical )","description":"Redburn: His First Voyage is the fourth book by the American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. The book is semi-autobiographical and recounts the adventures of a refined youth among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool. Melville wrote Redburn in less than ten weeks. While one scholar describes it as \"arguably his funniest work,\" scholar F.O. Matthiessen calls it \"the most moving of its author's books before Moby-Dick\".Unable to find employment at home, young Wellingborough Redburn signs on the Highlander, a merchantman out of New York City bound for Liverpool, England. Representing himself as the \"son of a gentleman\" and expecting to be treated as such, he discovers that he is just a green hand, a \"boy\", the lowest rank on the ship, assigned all the duties no other sailor wants, like cleaning out the \"pig-pen\", a longboat that serves as a shipboard sty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Herman Melville\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1542634148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781542634144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/19\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Herman Melville","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45265075798271,"sku":"9781542634144","price":13.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_046a1391-1506-44e7-ace6-c1088110c190.jpg?v=1713420079","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/redburn-his-first-voyage-by-herman-melville-9781542634144","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}