Hardcover, 1333 pages
English language
Published May 6, 1982 by Library of America.
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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is the second book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1847, and a sequel to his first South Sea narrative Typee, also based on the author's experiences in the South Pacific. After leaving the island of Nuku Hiva, the main character ships aboard a whaling vessel that makes its way to Tahiti, after which there is a mutiny and a third of the crew are imprisoned on Tahiti. In 1949, the novel was adapted into the exploitation film Omoo-Omoo, the Shark God.
Subjects
- 19th century fiction
- Marquesas Islands (French Poly
- 19th Century American Novel And Short Story
- Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Literature: Classics
- Sailors
- Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia)
- Classics
- Fiction / Literary
- Fiction
- Adventure stories
- Indigenous peoples
- Oceania