Herman Melville: 1851-1891

Herman Melville: 1851-1891
Author: Hershel Parker
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 1072
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780801868924

Through prodigious archival research into hundreds of family letters and diary entries, newly discovered newspaper articles, and marginalia from books that Melville owned, Parker vividly recreates the last four decades of Melville's life, episode after episode unknown to previous biographers. Illustrations.

Herman Melville

Herman Melville
Author: Hershel Parker
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 1070
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780801881862

Traces Melville's life from his childhood in New York, through his adventures abroad as a sailor, to his creation of "Moby-Dick," and forty years later, to his death, in obscurity.

Classed Subject Catalog

Classed Subject Catalog
Author: Engineering Societies Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 846
Release: 1963
Genre: Classified catalogs (Universal decimal)
ISBN:

The Panama Canal

The Panama Canal
Author: Frederic Jennings Haskin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 450
Release: 1913
Genre: Canal de Panama
ISBN:

Zone Policeman 88

Zone Policeman 88
Author: Harry Alverson Franck
Publisher:
Total Pages: 338
Release: 1913
Genre: Panama Canal (Panama)
ISBN:

Zone Policeman 88: A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and Its Workers is a non-fiction book written by Harry A. Franck and published in 1913. Franck, a travel writer who had produced a highly successful 1910 travelogue, Vagabond Journey Around the World, took a position as a police officer in the Panama Canal Zone, reporting his experiences and observations in a book that proved, like his debut, popular.