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Redburn: His First Voyage is the fourth book by the American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. The book is semi-autobiographical and recounts the adventures of a refined youth among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool. Unable to find employment at home, young Wellingborough Redburn signs on the Highlander, a merchantman out of New York City bound for Liverpool, England. Representing himself as the "son of a gentleman" and expecting to be treated as such, he discovers that he is just a green hand, a "boy", the lowest rank on the ship, assigned all the duties no other sailor wants, like cleaning out the "pig-pen", a longboat that serves as a shipboard sty...
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GenreBiography and Memoir, General Fiction
Length12 hrs 47 mins
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Publish dateOct 8, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I. HOW WELLINGBOROUGH REDBURN’S TASTE FOR THE SEA WAS BORN AND BRED IN HIM
32CHAPTER XXXII. THE DOCKS
2CHAPTER II. REDBURN’S DEPARTURE FROM HOME
33CHAPTER XXXIII. THE SALT-DROGHERS, AND GERMAN EMIGRANT SHIPS
3CHAPTER III. HE ARRIVES IN TOWN
34CHAPTER XXXIV. THE IRRAWADDY
4CHAPTER IV. HOW HE DISPOSED OF HIS FOWLING-PIECE
35CHAPTER XXXV. GALLIOTS, COAST-OF-GUINEA-MAN, AND FLOATING CHAPEL
5CHAPTER V. HE PURCHASES HIS SEA-WARDROBE, AND ON A DISMAL RAINY DAY PICKS UP HIS BOARD AND LODGING ALONG THE WHARVES
36CHAPTER XXXVI. THE OLD CHURCH OF ST. NICHOLAS, AND THE DEAD-HOUSE
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6CHAPTER VI. HE IS INITIATED IN THE BUSINESS OF CLEANING OUT THE PIG-PEN, AND SLUSHING DOWN THE TOP-MAST
37CHAPTER XXXVII. WHAT REDBURN SAW IN LAUNCELOTT’S-HEY
7CHAPTER VII. HE GETS TO SEA AND FEELS VERY BAD
38CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE DOCK-WALL BEGGARS
8CHAPTER VIII. HE IS PUT INTO THE LARBOARD WATCH; GETS SEA-SICK; AND RELATES SOME OTHER OF HIS EXPERIENCES
39CHAPTER XXXIX. THE BOOBLE-ALLEYS OF THE TOWN
9CHAPTER IX. THE SAILORS BECOMING A LITTLE SOCIAL, REDBURN CONVERSES WITH THEM
40CHAPTER XL. PLACARDS, BRASS-JEWELERS, TRUCK-HORSES, AND STEAMERS
10CHAPTER X. HE IS VERY MUCH FRIGHTENED; THE SAILORS ABUSE HIM; AND HE BECOMES MISERABLE AND FORLORN
41CHAPTER XLI. REDBURN ROVES ABOUT HITHER AND THITHER
11CHAPTER XI. HE HELPS WASH THE DECKS, AND THEN GOES TO BREAKFAST
42CHAPTER XLII. HIS ADVENTURE WITH THE CROSS OLD GENTLEMAN
12CHAPTER XII. HE GIVES SOME ACCOUNT OF ONE OF HIS SHIPMATES CALLED JACKSON
43CHAPTER XLIII. HE TAKES A DELIGHTFUL RAMBLE INTO THE COUNTRY; AND MAKES THE ACQUAINTANCE OF THREE ADORABLE CHARMERS
13CHAPTER XIII. HE HAS A FINE DAY AT SEA, BEGINS TO LIKE IT; BUT CHANGES HIS MIND
44CHAPTER XLIV. REDBURN INTRODUCES MASTER HARRY BOLTON TO THE FAVORABLE CONSIDERATION OF THE READER
14CHAPTER XIV. HE CONTEMPLATES MAKING A SOCIAL CALL ON THE CAPTAIN IN HIS CABIN
45CHAPTER XLV. HARRY BOLTON KIDNAPS REDBURN, AND CARRIES HIM OFF TO LONDON
15CHAPTER XV. THE MELANCHOLY STATE OF HIS WARDROBE
46CHAPTER XLVI. A MYSTERIOUS NIGHT IN LONDON
16CHAPTER XVI. AT DEAD OF NIGHT HE IS SENT UP TO LOOSE THE MAIN-SKYSAIL
47CHAPTER XLVII. HOMEWARD BOUND
17CHAPTER XVII. THE COOK AND STEWARD
48CHAPTER XLVIII. A LIVING CORPSE
18CHAPTER XVIII. HE ENDEAVORS TO IMPROVE HIS MIND; AND TELLS OF ONE BLUNT AND HIS DREAM BOOK
49CHAPTER XLIX. CARLO
19CHAPTER XIX. A NARROW ESCAPE
50CHAPTER L. HARRY BOLTON AT SEA
20CHAPTER XX. IN A FOG HE IS SET TO WORK AS A BELL-TOLLER, AND BEHOLDS A HERD OF OCEAN-ELEPHANTS
51CHAPTER LI. THE EMIGRANTS
21CHAPTER XXI. A WHALEMAN AND A MAN-OF-WAR’S-MAN
52CHAPTER LII. THE EMIGRANTS’ KITCHEN
22CHAPTER XXII. THE HIGHLANDER PASSES A WRECK
53CHAPTER LIII. THE HORATII AND CURIATII
23CHAPTER XXIII. AN UNACCOUNTABLE CABIN-PASSENGER, AND A MYSTERIOUS YOUNG LADY
54CHAPTER LIV. SOME SUPERIOR OLD NAIL-ROD AND PIG-TAIL
24CHAPTER XXIV. HE BEGINS TO HOP ABOUT IN THE RIGGING LIKE A SAINT JAGO’S MONKEY
55CHAPTER LV. DRAWING NIGH TO THE LAST SCENE IN JACKSON’S CAREER
25CHAPTER XXV. QUARTER-DECK FURNITURE
56CHAPTER LVI. UNDER THE LEE OF THE LONG-BOAT, REDBURN AND HARRY HOLD CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNION
26CHAPTER XXVI. A SAILOR A JACK OF ALL TRADES
57CHAPTER LVII. ALMOST A FAMINE
27CHAPTER XXVII. HE GETS A PEEP AT IRELAND, AND AT LAST ARRIVES AT LIVERPOOL
58CHAPTER LVIII. THOUGH THE HIGHLANDER PUTS INTO NO HARBOR AS YET; SHE HERE AND THERE LEAVES MANY OF HER PASSENGERS BEHIND
28CHAPTER XXVIII. HE GOES TO SUPPER AT THE SIGN OF THE BALTIMORE CLIPPER
59CHAPTER LIX. THE LAST END OF JACKSON
29CHAPTER XXIX. REDBURN DEFERENTIALLY DISCOURSES CONCERNING THE PROSPECTS OF SAILORS
60CHAPTER LX. HOME AT LAST
30CHAPTER XXX. REDBURN GROWS INTOLERABLY FLAT AND STUPID OVER SOME OUTLANDISH OLD GUIDE-BOOKS
61CHAPTER LXI. REDBURN AND HARRY, ARM IN ARM, IN HARBOR
31CHAPTER XXXI. WITH HIS PROSY OLD GUIDE-BOOK, HE TAKES A PROSY STROLL THROUGH THE TOWN
62CHAPTER LXII. THE LAST THAT WAS EVER HEARD OF HARRY BOLTON
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