Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is the second book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1847, and a sequel to his

Omoo Adventures in the South Seas This novel is a straightforward first-person account of adventure by a sensitive, well-read sailor called consecutively Typee

Traces Melville's life from his childhood in New York, through his adventures abroad as a sailor, to his creation of "Moby-Dick," and forty years later, to his

IT WAS the middle of a bright tropical afternoon that we made good our escape from the bay. The vessel we sought lay with her main-topsail aback about a league

Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas : Annotated by Herman Melville Following Typee's commercial and critical success, Herman Melville continued his South Sea adv