Herman Melville's Whaling Years by Heflin, Wilson
Herman Melville's Whaling Years by Heflin, Wilson

Herman Melville's Whaling Years

Based on more than a half-century of research, Herman Melville's Whaling Years is an essential work for...
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Author: Wilson Heflin
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Herman Melville's Whaling Years by Heflin, Wilson

Herman Melville's Whaling Years

$269.87
Herman Melville's Whaling Years by Heflin, Wilson

Herman Melville's Whaling Years

$269.87
Author: Wilson Heflin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Based on more than a half-century of research, Herman Melville's Whaling Years is an essential work for Melville scholars. In meticulous and thoroughly documented detail, it examines one of the most stimulating periods in the great author's life--the four years he spent aboard whaling vessels in the Pacific during the early 1840s. Melville would later draw repeatedly on these experiences in his writing, from his first successful novel, Typee, through his masterpiece Moby-Dick, to the poetry he wrote late in life.


During his time in the Pacific, Melville served on three whaling ships, as well as on a U.S. Navy man-of-war. As a deserter from one whaleship, he spent four weeks among the cannibals of Nukahiva in the Marquesas, seeing those islands in a relatively untouched state before they were irrevocably changed by French annexation in 1842. Rebelling against duty on another ship, he was held as a prisoner in a native calaboose in Tahiti. He prowled South American ports while on liberty, hunted giant tortoises in the Galapagos Islands, and explored the islands of Eimeo (Moorea) and Maui. He also saw the Society and Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands when the Western missionary presence was at its height.


Heflin combed the logbooks of any ship at sea at the time of Melville's voyages and examined nineteenth-century newspaper items, especially the marine intelligence columns, for mention of Melville's vessels. He also studied British consular records pertaining to the mutiny aboard the Australian whaler Lucy Ann, an insurrection in which Melville participated and which inspired his second novel, Omoo.


Distilling the life's work of a leading Melville expert into book form for the first time, this scrupulously edited volume is the most in-depth account ever published of Melville's years on whaleships and how those singular experiences influenced his writing.



Author: Wilson Heflin
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 04/12/2004
Pages: 332
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.61lbs
Size: 9.62h x 6.48w x 1.13d
ISBN: 9780826513823


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/15/2004 pg. 76

About the Author
Mary K. Bercaw Edwards is the author of Melville's Sources (1987) and teaches Literature of the Sea for the Williams College-Mystic Seaport Maritime Studies Program. She works aboard the only remaining whaleship, now berthed at Mystic Seaport, and has accrued 56,000 miles under sail.

Thomas Farel Heffernan, a former president of the Melville Society and a professor emeritus at Adelphi University, is the author of Mutiny on the Globe and Stove by a Whale: Owen Chase and the Essex.

Wilson Heflin (1913-1985) taught at the University of Alabama and the United States Naval Academy. A founding member of the Melville Society, he served as its president in 1958. Incoming president of the Melville Society.
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