Herman Melville : a biography

Meltzer, Milton

Herman Melville : a biography / Milton Meltzer - Minneapolis, MN : Twenty-First Century Books , c2006 - 128 p. : illus. ; 27 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Marvelous adventures -- Scars of childhood -- Where he wanted to be -- Merchant seaman -- Dwarfs, not titans -- Chasing whales -- Tropical paradise -- From Tahiti to Honolulu -- In the navy -- First book -- A married man -- More children and more books -- Writing Moby-Dick -- Melville's voice -- The years after -- "What unlike things."

Biography of the writer of Moby-Dick and Typee.


English.

9780761327493


Melville, Herman, 1819-1891


Novelists, American---19th century----Biography
Authors, American
Juvenile Literature

PS2386 / .M38 2006

JUV 92 MEL

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