TY  - BOOK
AU  - Melville,Herman
TI  - Mardi, and a voyage thither, Vol. 1 (of 2)
AV  - PS 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Polynesia -- Description and travel -- Fiction
KW  - Adventure stories
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardi; Release date is 2004-10-12; Geoff Palmer; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "Mardi: and a Voyage Thither" by Herman Melville is a novel published in 1849. Melville's first purely fictional work begins as a South Pacific adventure when an American sailor abandons his whaling vessel. The narrative transforms unexpectedly—from escape story to romance when the narrator encounters a mysterious woman, then into a philosophical quest through an allegorical archipelago. As the woman vanishes, the search becomes a vehicle for exploring political structures, religious practices, and fundamental questions about truth, certainty, and existence itself. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13720
ER  -