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White-Jacket

by Herman Melville

3 · 410 pages · First published 1850

In the year 1843 I shipped as Ordinary seaman on board of a United States frigate, then lying in a harbour of the Pacific Ocean. After remaining in this frigate for more than a year, I was discharged from the service upon the vessel s arrival home. My man-of-war experiences and observations are incorporated in the present volume.

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L. C. Page & co., Russell & Russell, Modern Library, ALBA, Naval Institute Press, Floating Press
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spa, und, eng, fre, ger