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Redburn, His First Voyage

Redburn, His First Voyage

Melville, Herman

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1519331231
ISBN13: 9781519331236
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 16 2015
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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. The first mate promptly nicknames him Buttons for the shiny ones on his impractical jacket. Redburn quickly grasps the workings of social relations aboard ship. As a common seaman he can have no contact with those behind the mast where the officers command the ship. Before the mast, where the common seaman work and live, a bully named Jackson, the best seaman aboard, rules through fear with an iron fist. Uneducated yet cunning, with broken nose and squinting eye, he is described as a Cain afloat, branded on his yellow brow with some inscrutable curse and going about corrupting and searing every heart that beat near him. Redburn soon experiences all the trials of a greenhorn: seasickness, scrubbing decks, climbing masts in the dead of night to unfurl sails, cramped quarters, and bad food.

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