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Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas
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"Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas" by Herman Melville is the sequel to his first South Sea narrative Typee, based on the author's experiences in the South Pacific. The takes up where the earlier story leaves off. The un-named narrator has just escaped an "indulgent captivity" among the natives of Nuku Hiva by joining the crew of an Australian whaling ship from Sydney. Soon after coming aboard he meets and forms a friendship with the vessel's surgeon, a tall thin man known to his crew-mates as "Dr Long Ghost".
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Herman Melville
Herman Melville was an American novelist, essayist, short story writer and poet. His most notable work, Moby Dick, is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.
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