White Jacket: Or, The World on a Man-of-War

By: Melville, Herman

It was not a very white jacket, but white enough, in all conscience, as the sequelwill show.The way I came by it was this.When our frigate lay in Callao, on the coast of Peru-her last harbour in thePacific-I found myself without a grego, or sailor's surtout; and as, toward the end ofa three years' cruise, no pea-jackets could be had from the purser's steward: andbeing bound for Cape Horn, some sort of a substitute was indispensable; Iemployed myself,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08Y3XFYQK
• ISBN13: 9798718115574
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"