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White-Jacket
Herman Melville
In 1843, after three years of voyaging in the South Seas, Herman 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 exposé of certain naval practices of which the public was only dimly aware.
736 pages, illustrations, bibliography
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 14, 1988 |
| ISBN13 | 9780870217883 |
| Publishers | Naval Institute Press |
| Pages | 488 |
| Dimensions | 139 × 209 × 44 mm · 730 g |
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