Books in the Northwestern-Newberry Editions of the Writings of Herman Melville series

A crewman on the man-of-war ""Neversink"", White-Jacket gets his name from the shirt he turned into a coat and lined with rags. The journey he undertakes is dangerous - a man falls overboard and White-Jacket falls from the rigging.

This edition of ""Moby-Dick"", released in honour of the book's 150th anniversary, is the authoritative text of one of the world's great adventure stories. A crew of whalers set out in pursuit of a fierce white whale. In ""Moby-Dick"", Melville set out to write ""a mighty book"" on a ""mighty theme"".