Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times

by Professor Aaron Sachs

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography

A double portrait of two of America's most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them--and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisis

Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history--the novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819-1891) and one of his earliest biographers,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069123695X
• ISBN13: 9780691236957
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.9"