A beautiful edition of the classic adventure story. Elegantly bound in bonded leather and featuring metallic foiI embossing on the cover. In the Heart of the Sea, the movie based on the real life events that Inspired Melville's tale, is released in December 2015.
Herman Melville (1819-1891) was born in New York and shipped out on a whaling expedition in 1841. His experiences as a sailor over the next four years--which included desertion, a mutiny, a reported stay among cannibals in the Marquesas Islands, and enlistment in the United States Navy--served as raw materials for his novels Typee (1846), Omoo (1847), Mardi (1849), Redburn (1849) and White-Jacket (1850). Melville's increasing experimentation with theme and narrative form led him to write Moby-Dick in 1851. Although the novel was a commercial failure, it is regarded by many contemporary critics and scholars as one of the greatest American novels. Melville spent the last two decades of his life working as a customs inspector in New York City. His last work of fiction, Billy Budd, Sailor, was published posthumously.
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