Encantadas

Young sailor Herman Melville, the author of the famous "Moby Dick", circumnavigated almost the entire globe in a few years, and this experience served as a source of inspiration for many of his works. The captain of the Spanish ship is carrying a cargo of "living goods" and does not notice the impending mutiny… A sailor, having had a quarrel with the captain, deserts and lives on an island with cannibals for several months… On the "enchanted" islands, incredibly large turtles reside, and soldiers catch ghosts… And a mysterious scribe from Wall Street, who appeared from the "department of undelivered letters", declares a boycott of society as a whole… This edition includes Melville's debut novel "Typee", the novellas "Encantadas, or The Enchanted Islands", "Benito Cereno", "Billy Budd, Foretopman" and "Bartleby, the Scrivener".