White-Jacket

White-Jacket
	First edition title page
Author	Herman Melville
Language	English
Genre	Adventure fiction
Published	1850 (London: Richard Bentley); 1850 (New York: Harper & Brothers);
Publication place	United States, England
Media type	Print
Preceded by	Redburn
Followed by	Moby-Dick

White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is the fifth book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1850.^[1] The book is based on the author's fourteen months' service in the United States Navy, aboard the frigate USS Neversink (actually USS United States).

Although early biographers of Melville assumed the account was reliably autobiographical, scholars have shown that much in the book was taken and transformed from popular sea books.

^ Hayford, Harrison, "Chronology," which is included at the back of all three volumes of the Library of America edition of Melville's writings.

[1] Hayford, Harrison, "Chronology," which is included at the back of all three volumes of the Library of America edition of Melville's writings.

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