White Jacket, or The World on a Man-of-War
By Herman Melville
Length15h 43m
About this audiobook
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. 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). The novel takes its title from the outer garment that the eponymous main character fashions for himself on board ship, with materials at hand, being in need of a coat sufficient for the rounding of Cape Horn. Due to a ship-wide rationing of tar, however, White-Jacket is forever denied his wish to tar the exterior of his coat and thus waterproof it. This causes him to have two near-death experiences, once when he is reclining among the canvases in the main-top and, his jacket blending in with the surrounding material, he is nearly unfurled along with the main sail; and once when, having been pitched overboard while reeving the halyards, he has to cut himself free from the coat in order not to drown.
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GenreBiography and Memoir, General Fiction
Length15 hrs 43 mins
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Publish dateOct 8, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I. THE JACKET.
2CHAPTER II. HOMEWARD BOUND.
3CHAPTER III. A GLANCE AT THE PRINCIPAL DIVISIONS, INTO WHICH A MAN-OF-WAR’S CREW IS DIVIDED.
4CHAPTER IV. JACK CHASE.
5CHAPTER V. JACK CHASE ON A SPANISH QUARTER-DECK.
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6CHAPTER VI. THE QUARTER-DECK OFFICERS, WARRANT OFFICERS, AND BERTH-DECK UNDERLINGS OF A MAN-OF-WAR; WHERE THEY LIVE IN THE SHIP; HOW THEY LIVE; THEIR SOCIAL STANDING ON SHIP-BOARD; AND WHAT SORT OF GENTLEMEN THEY ARE.
7CHAPTER VII. BREAKFAST, DINNER, AND SUPPER.
8CHAPTER VIII. SELVAGEE CONTRASTED WITH MAD-JACK.
9CHAPTER IX. OF THE POCKETS THAT WERE IN THE JACKET.
10CHAPTER X. FROM POCKETS TO PICKPOCKETS.
11CHAPTER XI. THE PURSUIT OF POETRY UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
12CHAPTER XII. THE GOOD OR BAD TEMPER OF MEN-OF-WAR’S MEN, IN A GREAT DEGREE, ATTRIBUTABLE TO THEIR PARTICULAR STATIONS AND DUTIES ABOARD SHIP.
13CHAPTER XIII. A MAN-OF-WAR HERMIT IN A MOB.
14CHAPTER XIV. A DRAUGHT IN A MAN-OF-WAR.
15CHAPTER XV. A SALT-JUNK CLUB IN A MAN-OF-WAR, WITH A NOTICE TO QUIT.
16CHAPTER XVI. GENERAL TRAINING IN A MAN-OF-WAR.
17CHAPTER XVII. AWAY! SECOND, THIRD, AND FOURTH CUTTERS, AWAY!
18CHAPTER XVIII. A MAN-OF-WAR FULL AS A NUT.
19CHAPTER XIX. THE JACKET ALOFT.
20CHAPTER XX. HOW THEY SLEEP IN A MAN-OF-WAR.
21CHAPTER XXI. ONE REASON WHY MEN-OF-WAR’S MEN ARE, GENERALLY, SHORT-LIVED.
22CHAPTER XXII. WASH-DAY AND HOUSE-CLEANING IN A MAN-OF-WAR.
23CHAPTER XXIII. THEATRICALS IN A MAN-OF-WAR.
24CHAPTER XXIV. INTRODUCTORY TO CAPE HORN.
25CHAPTER XXV. THE DOG-DAYS OFF CAPE HORN.
26CHAPTER XXVI. THE PITCH OF THE CAPE.
27CHAPTER XXVII. SOME THOUGHTS GROWING OUT OF MAD JACK’S COUNTERMANDING HIS SUPERIOR’S ORDER.
28CHAPTER XXVIII. EDGING AWAY.
29CHAPTER XXIX. THE NIGHT-WATCHES.
30CHAPTER XXX. A PEEP THROUGH A PORT-HOLE AT THE SUBTERRANEAN PARTS OF A MAN-OF-WAR.
31CHAPTER XXXI. THE GUNNER UNDER HATCHES.
32CHAPTER XXXII. A DISH OF DUNDERFUNK.
33CHAPTER XXXIII. A FLOGGING.
34CHAPTER XXXIV. SOME OF THE EVIL EFFECTS OF FLOGGING.
35CHAPTER XXXV. FLOGGING NOT LAWFUL.
36CHAPTER XXXVI. FLOGGING NOT NECESSARY.
37CHAPTER XXXVII. SOME SUPERIOR OLD “LONDON DOCK” FROM THE WINE-COOLERS OF NEPTUNE.
38CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE CHAPLAIN AND CHAPEL IN A MAN-OF-WAR.
39CHAPTER XXXIX. THE FRIGATE IN HARBOUR.—THE BOATS.—GRAND STATE RECEPTION OF THE COMMODORE.
40CHAPTER XL. SOME OF THE CEREMONIES IN A MAN-OF-WAR UNNECESSARY AND INJURIOUS.
41CHAPTER XLI. A MAN-OF-WAR LIBRARY.
42CHAPTER XLII. KILLING TIME IN A MAN-OF-WAR IN HARBOUR.
43CHAPTER XLIII. SMUGGLING IN A MAN-OF-WAR.
44CHAPTER XLIV. A KNAVE IN OFFICE IN A MAN-OF-WAR.
45CHAPTER XLV. PUBLISHING POETRY IN A MAN-OF-WAR.
46CHAPTER XLVI. THE COMMODORE ON THE POOP, AND ONE OF “THE PEOPLE” UNDER THE HANDS OF THE SURGEON.
47CHAPTER XLVII. AN AUCTION IN A MAN-OF-WAR.
48CHAPTER XLVIII. PURSER, PURSER’S STEWARD, AND POSTMASTER IN A MAN-OF-WAR.
49CHAPTER XLIX. NEVERSINK.
50CHAPTER L. THE BAY OF ALL BEAUTIES.
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