| White Jacket Contributor(s): Melville, Herman (Author) |
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ISBN: 1544736193 ISBN-13: 9781544736198 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $18.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1270 |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (1.24 lbs) 422 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: So, with many odds and ends of patches-old socks, old trowser-legs, and the like-I bedarned and bequilted the inside of my jacket, till it became, all over, stiff and padded, as King James's cotton-stuffed and dagger-proof doublet; and no buckram or steel hauberk stood up more stoutly. So far, very good; but pray, tell me, White-Jacket, how do you propose keeping out the rain and the wet in this quilted grego of yours? You don't call this wad of old patches a Mackintosh, do you?--you don't pretend to say that worsted is water-proof? No, my dear friend; and that was the deuce of it. Waterproof it was not, no more than a sponge. Indeed, with such recklessness had I bequilted my jacket, that in a rain-storm I became a universal absorber; swabbing bone-dry the very bulwarks I leaned against. |