White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War

Herman Melville

Subjects: Warships -- Fiction, United States -- History, Naval -- 19th century -- Fiction, Flagellation -- Fiction, Sea stories, Sailors -- Fiction, Naval discipline -- Fiction, PS, I

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White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is the fifth book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1850. The book is based on the author's fourteen months service in the United States Navy, aboard the frigate USS "Neversink" (actually the USS United States). From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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