White-jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Reprint: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1992(1990).* Publisher: Oxford University Press World's Classics.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing "An American Frigate" by Louis Dodd. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to edges and corners. No reading wear to minimally dished spine. Very slight creases to back cover. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Marked "damaged" by publishers. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or marks to text. Minimal paper colouration throughout. No other visible faults. VG+ * Illustrations: None.* Pages: 404 pp. text. xlii pp. variants, notes, sail diagram, list of nautical terms & advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- In 1843, after three years of voyaging in the South Seas, Melville signed up as an ordinary seaman on the man-of-war "United States", and headed for home. What he observed on that trip formed the basis of White-Jacket , a success both as a story and as an exposee of certain naval practices of which the public was only dimly aware. The treatment meted out to the white men on the man-of-war is the same was that experienced by black slaves in every state of the USA. His desire to expose and to reform a barbaric system which reflected badly on the Declaration of Independence, runs an unspoken connection. With hindsight, Melville's novel is double-edged. Hard to find in paperback.* This is a NEAR VG++ text copy of the 1st. /1st. imp. thus. with minor age and wear reducing it to VG+.* Tanner, Tony