Melville, Herman,  1819-1891 <br/><br/>
White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-Jacket  Release date is 2004-01-01 
<br/><br/>Geoff Palmer  Geoff Palmer 
<br/><br/> "White-Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War" by Herman Melville is a novel published in 1850. Drawing from Melville's service aboard a U.S. Navy frigate, this work delivers a fierce critique of American naval life. The story follows a sailor whose homemade white jacket becomes both his identity and his curse, leading to near-fatal encounters at sea. Melville's graphic descriptions of flogging helped abolish the practice in the Navy, making this his most politically charged work and a precursor to "Moby-Dick." (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Sea stories Sailors -- Fiction Naval discipline -- Fiction Flagellation -- Fiction Warships -- Fiction United States -- History, Naval -- 19th century -- Fiction 
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