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3856416Mardi: And A Voyage Thither VOL. Ihttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/mardi-and-a-voyage-thither-vol-i-1230000012510/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2608318/4f8bba94-e2af-4afe-ab78-1181b8ac127c.jpg?v=638384207318370000https://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2605709/4f8bba94-e2af-4afe-ab78-1181b8ac127c.jpg?v=6383842038089300005151MXNZhingoora BooksInStock/Ebooks/3793924Mardi: And A Voyage Thither VOL. I5151https://www.gandhi.com.mx/mardi-and-a-voyage-thither-vol-i-1230000012510/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2608318/4f8bba94-e2af-4afe-ab78-1181b8ac127c.jpg?v=638384207318370000https://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2605709/4f8bba94-e2af-4afe-ab78-1181b8ac127c.jpg?v=638384203808930000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20121230000012510_W3siaWQiOiI0YjdlYzUwZC0wNzg4LTRiZTYtYjhhYS03ZWRjNmJiYjM5NjIiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjUyLCJkaXNjb3VudCI6MCwic2VsbGluZ1ByaWNlIjo1MiwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6IklwcCIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMTItMDFUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d1230000012510_<p>Herman Melville</p><p>Born in New York City, the son of New England merchant. He worked at odd jobs (clerk, garmhand, teacher) before sailing to the South Seas on the whaler Acushnet. He deserted his ship, lived among cannibals, mutinied on an Australian boat, then spent two years on an American boat returning to the U.S. He successfully romanticized these adventures, publishing seven novels in six years, including Moby Dick (1851), one of the masterworks of American fiction. His popularity waned, and by the time he died he was virtually forgotten. Billy Budd was his last great novel. As his writing declined, Melville sailed again, around Cape Horn to San Francisco on a clipper ship commanded by his brother.</p><p>PREFACE<br />Not long ago, having published two narratives of voyages in the Pacific, which, in many quarters, were received with incredulity, the thought occurred to me, of indeed writing a romance of Polynesian adventure, and publishing it as such; to see whether, the fiction might not, possibly, be received for a verity: in some degree the reverse of my previous experience.<br />This thought was the germ of others, which have resulted in Mardi.<br />New York, January, 1849.</p><p>MARDI.<br />CONTENTS VOL. I<br />CHAPTER</p><ol><li>Foot in Stirrup</li><li>A Calm</li><li>A King for a Comrade</li><li>A Chat in the Clouds</li><li>Seats secured and Portmanteaus packed</li><li>Eight Bells</li><li>A Pause</li><li>They push off, Velis et Bemis</li><li>The Watery World is all before Them</li><li>They arrange their Canopies and Lounges, and try to make Things comfortable</li><li>Jarl afflicted with the Lockjaw</li><li>More about being in an open Boat</li><li>Of the Chondropterygii, and other uncouth Hordes infesting the South Seas</li><li>Jarls Misgivings</li><li>A Stitch in time saves Nine</li><li>They are Becalmed</li><li>In high Spirits they push on for the Terra Incognita</li><li>My Lord Shark and his Pages</li><li>Who goes there?</li><li>Noises and Portents</li><li>Man ho!</li><li>What befel the Brigantine at the Pearl Shell Islands</li><li>Sailing from the Island they pillage the Cabin</li><li>Dedicated to the College of Physicians and Surgeons</li><li>Peril a Peace-maker</li><li>Containing a Pennyweight of Philosophy</li><li>In which the past History of the Parki is concluded</li><li>Suspicions laid, and something about the Calmuc</li><li>What they lighted upon in further searching the Craft, and the Resolution they came to</li><li>Hints for a full length of Samoa</li><li>Rovings Alow and Aloft</li><li>Xiphius Platypterus</li><li>Otard</li><li>How they steered on their Way</li><li>Ah, Annatoo!</li><li>The Parki gives up the Ghost</li><li>Once more they take to the Chamois</li><li>The Sea on Fire</li><li>They fall in with Strangers</li><li>Sire and Sons</li><li>A Fray</li><li>Remorse</li><li>The Tent entered</li><li>Away!</li><li>Reminiscences</li><li>The Chamois with a roving Commission</li><li>Yillah, Jarl, and Samoa</li><li>Something under the Surface</li><li>Yillah</li><li>Yillah in Ardair</li><li>The Dream begins to fade</li><li>World ho!</li><li>The Chamois Ashore</li><li>A Gentleman from the Sun</li><li>Tiffin in a Temple</li><li>King Media a Host</li><li>Taji takes Counsel with himself</li><li>Mardi by Night and Yillah by Day</li><li>Their Morning Meal</li><li>Belshazzar on the Bench</li><li>An Incognito</li><li>Taji retires from the World</li><li>Odo and its Lord</li><li>Yillah a Phantom</li><li>Taji makes three Acquaintances</li><li>With a fair Wind at Sunrise they sail</li><li>Little King Peepi</li><li>How Teeth were regarded in Valapee</li><li>The Company discourse, and Braid-Beard rehearses a Legend 70. The Minstrel leads of with a Paddle-Song; and a Message is received from Abroad</li><li>They land upon the Island of Juam</li><li>A Book from the Chronicles of Mohi</li><li>Something more of the Prince</li><li>Advancing deeper into the Vale, they encounter Donjalolo</li><li>Time and Temples</li><li>A pleasant Place for a Lounge</li><li>The House of the Afternoon</li><li>Babbalanja solus</li><li>The Center of many Circumferences</li><li>Donjalolo in the Bosom of his Family</li><li>Wherein Babbalanja relates the Adventure of one Karkeke in the Land of Shades</li><li>How Donjalolo, sent Agents to the surrounding Isles; with the Result</li><li>They visit the Tributary Islets</li><li>Taji sits down to Dinner with five-and-twenty Kings, and a royal Time they have</li><li>After Dinner</li><li>Of those Scamps the Plujii</li><li>Nora-Bamma</li><li>In a Calm, Hautias Heralds approach</li><li>Braid-Beard rehearses the Origin of the Isle of Rogues</li><li>Rare Sport at Ohonoo</li><li>Of King Uhia and his Subjects</li><li>The God Keevi and the Precipice of Mondo</li><li>Babbalanja steps in between Mohi and Yoomy; and Yoomy relates a Legend</li><li>Of that jolly old Lord, Borabolla; and that jolly Island of his, Mondoldo; and of the Fish-ponds, and the Hereafters of Fish</li><li>That jolly old Lord Borabolla laughs on both Sides of his Face 96. Samoa a Surgeon</li><li>Faith and Knowledge</li><li>The Tale of a Traveler</li><li>"Marnee Ora, Ora Marnee."</li><li>The Pursuer himself is pursued</li><li>The Iris</li><li>They depart from Mondoldo</li><li>As they sail</li><li>Wherein Babbalanja broaches a diabolical Theory, and in his own Person proves it</li></ol>(*_*)1230000012510_<p>Herman Melville</p><p>Born in New York City, the son of New England merchant. He worked at odd jobs (clerk, garmhand, teacher) before sailing to the South Seas on the whaler Acushnet. He deserted his ship, lived among cannibals, mutinied on an Australian boat, then spent two years on an American boat returning to the U.S. He successfully romanticized these adventures, publishing seven novels in six years, including Moby Dick (1851), one of the masterworks of American fiction. His popularity waned, and by the time he died he was virtually forgotten. Billy Budd was his last great novel. As his writing declined, Melville sailed again, around Cape Horn to San Francisco on a clipper ship commanded by his brother.</p><p>PREFACE<br />Not long ago, having published two narratives of voyages in the Pacific, which, in many quarters, were received with incredulity, the thought occurred to me, of indeed writing a romance of Polynesian adventure, and publishing it as such; to see whether, the fiction might not, possibly, be received for a verity: in some degree the reverse of my previous experience.<br />This thought was the germ of others, which have resulted in Mardi.<br />New York, January, 1849.</p><p>MARDI.<br />CONTENTS VOL. I<br />CHAPTER</p><ol><li>Foot in Stirrup</li><li>A Calm</li><li>A King for a Comrade</li><li>A Chat in the Clouds</li><li>Seats secured and Portmanteaus packed</li><li>Eight Bells</li><li>A Pause</li><li>They push off, Velis et Bemis</li><li>The Watery World is all before Them</li><li>They arrange their Canopies and Lounges, and try to make Things comfortable</li><li>Jarl afflicted with the Lockjaw</li><li>More about being in an open Boat</li><li>Of the Chondropterygii, and other uncouth Hordes infesting the South Seas</li><li>Jarls Misgivings</li><li>A Stitch in time saves Nine</li><li>They are Becalmed</li><li>In high Spirits they push on for the Terra Incognita</li><li>My Lord Shark and his Pages</li><li>Who goes there?</li><li>Noises and Portents</li><li>Man ho!</li><li>What befel the Brigantine at the Pearl Shell Islands</li><li>Sailing from the Island they pillage the Cabin</li><li>Dedicated to the College of Physicians and Surgeons</li><li>Peril a Peace-maker</li><li>Containing a Pennyweight of Philosophy</li><li>In which the past History of the Parki is concluded</li><li>Suspicions laid, and something about the Calmuc</li><li>What they lighted upon in further searching the Craft, and the Resolution they came to</li><li>Hints for a full length of Samoa</li><li>Rovings Alow and Aloft</li><li>Xiphius Platypterus</li><li>Otard</li><li>How they steered on their Way</li><li>Ah, Annatoo!</li><li>The Parki gives up the Ghost</li><li>Once more they take to the Chamois</li><li>The Sea on Fire</li><li>They fall in with Strangers</li><li>Sire and Sons</li><li>A Fray</li><li>Remorse</li><li>The Tent entered</li><li>Away!</li><li>Reminiscences</li><li>The Chamois with a roving Commission</li><li>Yillah, Jarl, and Samoa</li><li>Something under the Surface</li><li>Yillah</li><li>Yillah in Ardair</li><li>The Dream begins to fade</li><li>World ho!</li><li>The Chamois Ashore</li><li>A Gentleman from the Sun</li><li>Tiffin in a Temple</li><li>King Media a Host</li><li>Taji takes Counsel with himself</li><li>Mardi by Night and Yillah by Day</li><li>Their Morning Meal</li><li>Belshazzar on the Bench</li><li>An Incognito</li><li>Taji retires from the World</li><li>Odo and its Lord</li><li>Yillah a Phantom</li><li>Taji makes three Acquaintances</li><li>With a fair Wind at Sunrise they sail</li><li>Little King Peepi</li><li>How Teeth were regarded in Valapee</li><li>The Company discourse, and Braid-Beard rehearses a Legend 70. The Minstrel leads of with a Paddle-Song; and a Message is received from Abroad</li><li>They land upon the Island of Juam</li><li>A Book from the Chronicles of Mohi</li><li>Something more of the Prince</li><li>Advancing deeper into the Vale, they encounter Donjalolo</li><li>Time and Temples</li><li>A pleasant Place for a Lounge</li><li>The House of the Afternoon</li><li>Babbalanja solus</li><li>The Center of many Circumferences</li><li>Donjalolo in the Bosom of his Family</li><li>Wherein Babbalanja relates the Adventure of one Karkeke in the Land of Shades</li><li>How Donjalolo, sent Agents to the surrounding Isles; with the Result</li><li>They visit the Tributary Islets</li><li>Taji sits down to Dinner with five-and-twenty Kings, and a royal Time they have</li><li>After Dinner</li><li>Of those Scamps the Plujii</li><li>Nora-Bamma</li><li>In a Calm, Hautias Heralds approach</li><li>Braid-Beard rehearses the Origin of the Isle of Rogues</li><li>Rare Sport at Ohonoo</li><li>Of King Uhia and his Subjects</li><li>The God Keevi and the Precipice of Mondo</li><li>Babbalanja steps in between Mohi and Yoomy; and Yoomy relates a Legend</li><li>Of that jolly old Lord, Borabolla; and that jolly Island of his, Mondoldo; and of the Fish-ponds, and the Hereafters of Fish</li><li>That jolly old Lord Borabolla laughs on both Sides of his Face 96. Samoa a Surgeon</li><li>Faith and Knowledge</li><li>The Tale of a Traveler</li><li>"Marnee Ora, Ora Marnee."</li><li>The Pursuer himself is pursued</li><li>The Iris</li><li>They depart from Mondoldo</li><li>As they sail</li><li>Wherein Babbalanja broaches a diabolical Theory, and in his own Person proves it</li></ol>...1230000012510_Zhingoora Bookslibro_electonico_4d10a611-3088-4b49-abad-11f1f2642d98_1230000012510;1230000012510_1230000012510Herman MelvilleInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/f6870bb7-cdee-4f06-9030-28c390af4318-epub-16ea2514-6bd5-4ee0-a753-093f2d607cc9.epub2012-08-18T00:00:00+00:00Zhingoora Books