Redburn His First Voyage

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...