Moby Dick

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Richard C

 

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February 15, 2012

 

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Herman dropped out of school at the age of 12, and tried his hand at a number of odd jobs in and around New York. Finally, at the age of 17, he decided to seek fortune and adventure at sea, and signed up as a cabin boy on a ship bound for Liverpool, England. Upon his return several months later, Melville tried again to find work on land, but by 1841 he was ready to set sail again...
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Like his character Ishmael, Melville set sail out of New Bedford in late December on a whaling ship bound for the South Seas. Melville certainly found adventure on this voyage; not only did he participate in the kind of whale hunting later described in Moby-Dick, but he also abandoned ship in the Marquesas Islands, and lived as a prisoner of the native people there for several months...
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