White Jacket: Or The World on a Man-of-War (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781978249691)

White-Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War, usually referred to as White-Jacket, is an 1850 novel by Herman Melville and is considered to be a semi-biographical book, written from Melville's own personal experiences while returning home to the Atlantic Coast from the South Seas with the American Navy on a man-o'-war vessel. In the note preceding the novel, Melville states, "In the year 1843 I shipped as 'ordinary seaman' on board of a United States frigate then lying in a harbor of the Pacific Ocean. After remaining in this frigate for more than a year, I was discharged from the service . . ."

Author: Herman Melville
ISBN-10: 1978249691
ISBN-13: 9781978249691
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 10/13/2017
Pages: 548
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.11d