Sail to the exotic Galapagos Islands with Herman Melville, author
of "Moby-Dick." Let History and Legend, Fiction and Fact, Myth and
Mystery swirl around you as you enter "The Encantadas," a unique
island world stretching along our planet's Equator. Discover
teeming seabird rookeries, stark volcanic landscapes, and world
famous giant tortoises . . . Meet buccaneers and explorers,
colonists and castaways, whalers and naturalists . . . Explore
these Enchanted Isles with one of America's greatest writers . . .
Enrich your once-in-a-lifetime visit to . . . The Galapagos
Islands. Travelers have been arriving in the Galapagos Islands
since at least 1535. While naturalist Charles Darwin made these
volcanic peaks famous, Spanish explorers, English buccaneers,
American whalers, Ecuadorian colonists, and a United States
President all put in appearances here over the centuries. Herman
Melville was one such visitor. He first glimpsed the Galapagos
Islands as a young seaman on the whaler "Acushnet" out of New
Bedford, Massachusetts. Years later, after the failure of his novel
"Moby-Dick," he tried to regain his lost popularity with the
reading public by writing a series ten of magazine sketches
recalling the strange worlds he found in these Enchanted Isles.
This current book was created for today's visitor-or armchair
visitor. Bring it with you, or read it before you leave home.
Enhance your enjoyment of the Galapagos Islands with these glimpses
of its captivating natural and human history written over 150 years
ago by that famous fellow traveler. Discover . . . - Herman
Melville's ten sketches called "The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles."
- Forty of Moses Michelsohn's striking b&w photographs (in
color in the ebook) from the Galapagos islands: birds, iguanas,
giant tortoises, sea lions, exotic plants, and volcanic landscapes.
- Lynn Michelsohn's introduction to the work, and to each
individual sketch. Enjoy your visit to the Galapagos Islands About
the Authors Herman Melville wrote in the genre that has been called
"dark romanticism." "The Encantadas," like "Moby-Dick" (considered
by many to be the best novel ever written) and his well respected
novella "Billy Budd," draws on his shipboard experiences in the
South Seas as a young man. Lynn Michelsohn has written such diverse
books as "Roswell, Your Travel Guide to the UFO Capital of the
World " and "Gullah Ghosts, Stories and Folktales from the South
Carolina Lowcountry." Her longstanding interests in both the
Galapagos Islands and Herman Melville led to this work. Like
Melville, biologist and wildlife photographer Moses Michelsohn
found tortoises on the Galapagos Islands fascinating. Tree frogs in
Ecuador, Costa Rica, and the southeastern United States remain his
primary research interest, however.
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