White-Jacket (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Herman Melville
- First Published: 1850
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: 1840’s
- Setting: A vessel of the United States Navy
- Principal Characters: White-Jacket, Jack Chase, Captain Claret
- Genres: Long fiction, Adventure, Sea story
- Subjects: Voyages, Nineteenth century, Alienation, Death or dying, Ships, Sailing or sailors, Amputation, amputees, or prosthetics, Sea or seafaring life, Navies, Clothing or dress
- Locales: Oceans
The Story:
White-Jacket, as he was later nicknamed, was a common sailor, a member of the crew of the United States frigate Neversink on a cruise of the Pacific Ocean during the 1840’s. After the ship left Callao, Peru, the sailor tried to purchase a heavy jacket that he would need as protection when the Neversink passed into the colder climate off Cape Horn. Because a heavy jacket was not available from the ship’s purser, the vessel having been at sea for more than three years, the sailor had to make a canvas jacket for himself.
The jacket was full of...
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