by Herman Melville · Alba Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788489846524
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«Chaqueta blanca» is Herman Melville's adventure novel, published by Alba Editorial in paperback (663 pages, in Spanish).
Melville drew inspiration from the fourteen months he served as an ordinary seaman aboard a frigate, sailing the Pacific and rounding Cape Horn. Between autobiography and epic fiction, the work portrays life in the navy and denounces abuses such as corporal punishment, with a humanitarian outlook.
The original title is White Jacket; or, the World in a Man-of-War. This Spanish edition, published in 1998, is the 2nd edition and belongs to Alba Editorial's Clásica collection.
For readers interested in classic adventure literature and autobiographical maritime narratives.
Herman Melville was an American writer of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was not well known to the public, but 1919, the centennial of his birth, was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick would eventually be considered one of the Great American Novels.
