Mardi is Melville's first pure fiction work, his previous novels being heavily autobiographical. It details the traveling's of an American sailor who abandons his whaling vessel to explore the South Pacific.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I - Herman Melville
Mardi is Melville's first pure fiction work, his previous novels being heavily autobiographical. It details the traveling's of an American sailor who abandons his whaling vessel to explore the South Pacific.