by Herman Melville · Hesperus Press Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781843910152
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«The Enchanted Isles» is a travel literature book by Herman Melville, published by Hesperus Press Ltd in paperback (112 pages, in English).
Melville wrote this early work after visiting the Galápagos Islands; halfway between a travel notebook and a literary essay, the work brings together descriptive sketches of each island and evokes its geography, history and associated legends, with prose that combines observation and a mysterious atmosphere.
The book, published in 2002, belongs to the Hesperus Classics collection; the original title is The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles (1854) and it includes a foreword by Margaret Drabble.
Aimed at readers of travel literature and essays, and at those interested in nineteenth-century descriptive prose.
Herman Melville was an American writer of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was not well known to the public, but 1919, the centennial of his birth, was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick would eventually be considered one of the Great American Novels.
