Because of his extensive experience as a seaman and a whaler, his descriptions of life out at sea were comprehensive and unflinchingly accurate. Melville was also able to communicate the fear and terror of a whale hunt, a feat that would make his greatest work, Moby Dick, a literary tribute to the whaling industry.
This books contains the complete works of Melville: Typee: A Romance of the South Seas. Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither. Redburn: His First Voyage. White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War. Moby-Dick: or, The Whale. Pierre: or, The Ambiguities. Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile. The Piazza Tales. The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War. Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land. John Marr and Other Sailors with Some Sea Pieces. Timoleon and Other Ventures in Verse. The Apple-Tree Table, and Other Sketches. Billy Budd, and Other Prose Pieces. Weeds and Wildings, With a Rose or Two. Essays. Uncollected Poems.
