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.
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
Novelists, American---19th century----Biography Authors, American Juvenile Literature