by Herman Melville · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439718215
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Las Encantadas» is a collection of ten sketches by Herman Melville, published by Mondadori in paperback, in Spanish.
The ten sketches portray the Galápagos Islands as a territory between chronicle and legend: the arrival of the Spaniards, their disconcerting fauna, the refuge of pirates and the mythology that sailors gradually created around them. The last piece adopts a more narrative tone within the set.
The sketches were published in Putnam's Monthly Magazine in 1854 and collected in The Piazza Tales in 1856. Edition from the La Cabeza de Medusa collection.
It will appeal to readers of nineteenth-century short fiction, travel writing and island mythology.
