1. The Life and Works of Herman Melville
... bootless, there was another possibility open to venturesome young men: he could go to sea. Other members of his family had sought nautical careers, and besides, he was fresh from reading Richard Henry Dana , Jr.'s, Two Years Before the Mast. The words he put into Ishmael's mouth at the beginning ofMoby-Dick fit his own case: "having little or no money ... ...
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