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Redburn. His First Voyage / Being the Sailor Boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-Of-A-Gentleman in the Merchant Navy

by Herman Melville

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Contents

  1. Chapter I. How Wellingborough Redburn’s Taste for the Sea Was Born and Bred in Him
  2. Chapter II. Redburn’s Departure from Home
  3. Chapter III. He Arrives in Town
  4. Chapter IV. How He Disposed of His Fowling-Piece
  5. Chapter V. He Purchases His Sea-Wardrobe, and on a Dismal Rainy Day Picks Up His Board and Lodging Along the Wharves
  6. Chapter VI. He Is Initiated in the Business of Cleaning Out the Pig-Pen, and Slushing Down the Top-Mast
  7. Chapter VII. He Gets to Sea and Feels Very Bad
  8. Chapter VIII. He Is Put Into the Larboard Watch; Gets Sea-Sick; And Relates Some Other of His Experiences
  9. Chapter IX. The Sailors Becoming a Little Social, Redburn Converses with Them
  10. Chapter X. He Is Very Much Frightened; The Sailors Abuse Him; And He Becomes Miserable and Forlorn
  11. Chapter XI. He Helps Wash the Decks, and Then Goes to Breakfast
  12. Chapter XII. He Gives Some Account of One of His Shipmates Called Jackson
  13. Chapter XIII. He Has a Fine Day at Sea, Begins to Like It; But Changes His Mind
  14. Chapter XIV. He Contemplates Making a Social Call on the Captain in His Cabin
  15. Chapter XV. The Melancholy State of His Wardrobe
  16. Chapter XVI. At Dead of Night He Is Sent Up to Loose the Main-Skysail
  17. Chapter XVII. The Cook and Steward
  18. Chapter XVIII. He Endeavors to Improve His Mind; And Tells of One Blunt and His Dream Book
  19. Chapter XIX. A Narrow Escape
  20. Chapter XX. In a Fog He Is Set to Work as a Bell-Toller, and Beholds a Herd of Ocean-Elephants
  21. Chapter XXI. A Whaleman and a Man-of-War’s-Man
  22. Chapter XXII. The Highlander Passes a Wreck
  23. Chapter XXIII. An Unaccountable Cabin-Passenger, and a Mysterious Young Lady
  24. Chapter XXIV. He Begins to Hop About in the Rigging Like a Saint Jago’s Monkey
  25. Chapter XXV. Quarter-Deck Furniture
  26. Chapter XXVI. A Sailor a Jack of All Trades
  27. Chapter XXVII. He Gets a Peep at Ireland, and at Last Arrives at Liverpool
  28. Chapter XXVIII. He Goes to Supper at the Sign of the Baltimore Clipper
  29. Chapter XXIX. Redburn Deferentially Discourses Concerning the Prospects of Sailors
  30. Chapter XXX. Redburn Grows Intolerably Flat and Stupid Over Some Outlandish Old Guide-Books
  31. Chapter XXXI. With His Prosy Old Guide-Book, He Takes a Prosy Stroll Through the Town
  32. Chapter XXXII. The Docks
  33. Chapter XXXIII. The Salt-Droghers, and German Emigrant Ships
  34. Chapter XXXIV. The Irrawaddy
  35. Chapter XXXV. Galliots, Coast-of-Guinea-Man, and Floating Chapel
  36. Chapter XXXVI. The Old Church of St. Nicholas, and the Dead-House
  37. Chapter XXXVII. What Redburn Saw in Launcelott’s-Hey
  38. Chapter XXXVIII. The Dock-Wall Beggars
  39. Chapter XXXIX. The Booble-Alleys of the Town
  40. Chapter XL. Placards, Brass-Jewelers, Truck-Horses, and Steamers
  41. Chapter XLI. Redburn Roves About Hither and Thither
  42. Chapter XLII. His Adventure with the Cross Old Gentleman
  43. Chapter XLIII. He Takes a Delightful Ramble Into the Country; And Makes the Acquaintance of Three Adorable Charmers
  44. Chapter XLIV. Redburn Introduces Master Harry Bolton to the Favorable Consideration of the Reader
  45. Chapter XLV. Harry Bolton Kidnaps Redburn, and Carries Him Off to London
  46. Chapter XLVI. A Mysterious Night in London
  47. Chapter XLVII. Homeward Bound
  48. Chapter XLVIII. A Living Corpse
  49. Chapter XLIX. Carlo
  50. Chapter L. Harry Bolton at Sea
  51. Chapter LI. The Emigrants
  52. Chapter LII. The Emigrants’ Kitchen
  53. Chapter LIII. The Horatii and Curiatii
  54. Chapter LIV. Some Superior Old Nail-Rod and Pig-Tail
  55. Chapter LV. Drawing Nigh to the Last Scene in Jackson’s Career
  56. Chapter LVI. Under the Lee of the Long-Boat, Redburn and Harry Hold Confidential Communion
  57. Chapter LVII. Almost a Famine
  58. Chapter LVIII. Though the Highlander Puts Into No Harbor as Yet; She Here and There Leaves Many of Her Passengers Behind
  59. Chapter LIX. The Last End of Jackson
  60. Chapter LX. Home at Last
  61. Chapter LXI. Redburn and Harry, Arm in Arm, in Harbor
  62. Chapter LXII. The Last That Was Ever Heard of Harry Bolton

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