Herman Melville was born in New York, and in his early adulthood served as a cabin boy on a voyage to London. Although he wrote little of this and other journeys by boat, his novel "Moby-Dick" is believed to contain much that is autobiographical. In the late 1850s, he began lecturing on his South Seas journeys. He made very little money from his written works during his lifetime, but his writings were "rediscovered" after his death and have become classics.

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• Moby Dick, or, the Whale