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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is the second book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1847, and a sequel to his first South Seas narrative Typee, also based on the author's experiences in the South Pacific.
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Film and TV adaptations of Herman Melville’s works. Last of the Pagans (1935) Omoo-Omoo the Shark God (1949) Enchanted Island (1958) Robert J. Flaherty (1884-1951) and Typee; John Huston (1906-1987) and Typee; F. W. Murnau (1888-1931) and Typee; Dow, Jr. in the Lansingburgh Democrat; Melville’s Mardi and Andrews’ Floral Tableaux; The ...
Omoo starts after Melville leaves Nuku Hiva, and centers on his adventures on a whaling ship, the ship's subsequent "soft mutiny" and his imprisonment with a majority of the ship's crew on the island of Tahiti.
Omoo portrays individual men and women whose peculiarity, seen under Western eyes, is the aftermath of a tidal wave of historical change originating in the West.
Summary. Atbenceum [London], 1015 (10 April 1847), 382-84. ‘Omoo’ in the dialect of the Marquesas Islands signifies a person wandering from one island to another. The narrative before us opens with the author's escape from the island of Nukuheva-where, as our readers will sufficiently remember, (see Ath. Nos. 956, 957, 980, and 988,) the ...
Omoo, novel by Herman Melville, published in 1847 as a sequel to his novel Typee. Based on Melville’s own experiences in the South Pacific, this episodic novel, in a more comical vein than that of Typee, tells of the narrator’s participation in a mutiny on a whale ship and his subsequent wanderings.
