Omoo

Herman Melville's rollicking sequel to Typee, following a restless sailor through the islands of the South Pacific.

At a glance Part travelogue, part comedy, part sharp look at what colonisers and missionaries… Fresh from his adventures in the valley of Typee, a young sailor signs onto a battered… What it's about Herman Melville's 1847 narrative picks up where his first book left off… Drawing on Melville's own time as a sailor, the book follows a loose, episodic path…

Herman Melville's 1847 narrative picks up where his first book left off, carrying its wandering narrator across the South Seas aboard a poorly run whaling ship and then ashore on Tahiti and its neighbours.