Little Black Classics: The Maldive Shark

'No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.'

 

A traveller's account that reads like a vision of Hell, Melville's descriptions of the nightmarish creatures and otherworldly landscapes of the Galapagos Islands, based on his adventures around the Pacific in a whaler, are accompanied here by his darkly resonant sea poems.