White-Jacket

Herman Melville's 'White-Jacket' is an intricate blend of novelistic narrative and autobiographical elements that vividly conjures the experience of naval life in the 19th century. Through the titular narrator White-Jacket, whose name remains an enigma, Melville recounts a 14-month odyssey with the American Navy, journeying from the Pacific, around the treacherous Cape Horn, to New England. The bo...