Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. 2

By Herman Melville and Allan Melville

Book Overview

We were now voyaging straight for Maramma; where lived and reigned, in mystery, the High Pontiff of the adjoining isles: prince, priest, and god, in his own proper person: great lord paramount over many kings in Mardi; his hands full of scepters and crosiers. Soon, rounding a lofty and insulated shore, the great central peak of the island came in sight; domineering over the neighboring hills; the same aspiring pinnacle, descried in drawing near the archipelago in the Chamois. "Tall Peak of Ofo " cried Babbalanja, "how comes it that thy shadow so broods over Mardi; flinging new shades upon spots already shaded by the hill-sides; shade upon shade "

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1516836030
• ISBN13: 9781516836031
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"