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White-Jacket
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White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is the fifth book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1850.[1] The book is based on the author's fourteen months' service in the United States Navy, aboard the frigate USS Neversink (actually USS United States).
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Author | Herman Melville |
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Language | English |
Genre | Adventure fiction |
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Publication place | United States, England |
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Preceded by | Redburn |
Followed by | Moby-Dick |
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Although early biographers of Melville assumed the account was reliably autobiographical, scholars have shown that much in the book was taken and transformed from popular sea books.