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Best known as the creator of Captain Ahab and the great white whale of Moby-Dick, Herman Melville (1819ā91) found critical and popular success with his first novels, which he based on his adventures in the South Seas. His reputation was diminished by his preoccupation with metaphysical themes and allegorical techniquesā¦
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We have focused our recommendations on Melvilleās (and other peopleās) takes on Polynesian islands, but Melville also wrote about another crucial Pacific archipelago, the GalĆ”pagos Islands. His collection of sketches, āThe Encantadas,ā explores a very different world from Nukuhiva, Maui, or Tahiti, one nearly empty of human inhabitants, given over to birds, tortoises, iguanas, and insects. Yet here as elsewhere, Melville finds plenty to satisfy his āitch for things remote.ā And here as elsewhere he meditates on human nature: the misfits, petty tyrants, and exiles who might find a home in such a forbidding place. If you think of Melvilleā¦
From Wyn and Christopher's list on understanding Herman Melvilleās itch for adventure.
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