# Redburn. His First Voyage

_Being the Sailor Boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-Of-A-Gentleman in the Merchant Navy_

By Herman Melville.

"Redburn. His First Voyage" by Herman Melville is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1849. It follows young Wellingborough Redburn, a gentleman's son who signs onto a merchant ship bound for Liverpool. Expecting respect, he instead faces brutal treatment as the lowest-ranking sailor aboard. He encounters tyrannical crewmates, witnesses devastating poverty in Liverpool's streets, and befriends a mysterious dandy whose secrets unfold during their return voyage. The novel chronicles a youth's harsh awakening to life's cruelties at sea and ashore. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: Sea stories; Autobiographical fiction; Bildungsromans; Young men -- Fiction; Americans -- England -- Fiction; Sailors -- Fiction; Seafaring life -- Fiction; Merchant mariners -- Fiction; Liverpool (England) -- Fiction

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