Redburn: His First Voyage is the fourth book by the American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. The book is semi-autobiographical and recounts the adventures of a refined youth among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool. Unable to find employment at home, young Wellingborough Redburn signs on the Highlander, a merchantman out of New York City bound for Liverpool, England. Representing himself as the "son of a gentleman" and expecting to be treated as such, he discovers that he is just a green hand, a "boy", the lowest rank on the ship, assigned all the duties no other sailor wants, like cleaning out the "pig-pen", a longboat that serves as a shipboard sty…
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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● ISBN 9783985315383 ● 出版者 Otbebookpublishing ● 发布时间 2021 ● 下载 3 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 8168556 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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