...completed his first book, Typee, the record of his captivity. This was followed the next year by Omoo, which completes his island adventures. In 1849 came Redburn, based on his earlier voyage to Liverpool , and in 1850 White-Jacket, an account of life on a man-of-war. The first two had a great vogue and aroused much wonder as to the proportion of fiction and fact which might have gone to their maki...