Book of Donmon Teith

This is the extended and annotated edition including an extensive biographical annotation about the author and his life. Mardi is Melville's first pure fiction

We were now voyaging straight for Maramma; where lived and reigned, in mystery, the High Pontiff of the adjoining isles: prince, priest, and god, in his own pro

Presented as narratives of his own South Sea experiences, Melville's first two books had roused incredulity in many readers. Their disbelief, he declared, had b

Book Excerpt: ...ance.Winding our way among jungles, we came to a deep hollow, planted with one gigantic palm-shaft, belted round by saplings, springing from it