Because of his extensive experience as a seaman and a whaler, his descriptions of life out at sea were comprehensive and unflinchingly accurate.&nbsp;<b>Melville</b>&nbsp;was also able to communicate the fear and terror of a whale hunt, a feat that would make his greatest work, Moby Dick, a literary tribute to the whaling industry.<br /><br />This books contains the complete works of Melville:<ul> <li>Typee: A Romance of the South Seas.</li> <li>Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas.</li> <li>Mardi: and A Voyage Thither.</li> <li>Redburn: His First Voyage.</li> <li>White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War.</li> <li>Moby-Dick: or, The Whale.</li> <li>Pierre: or, The Ambiguities.</li> <li>Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile.</li> <li>The Piazza Tales.</li> <li>The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade.</li> <li>Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War.</li> <li>Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land.</li> <li>John Marr and Other Sailors with Some Sea Pieces.</li> <li>Timoleon and Other Ventures in Verse.</li> <li>The Apple-Tree Table, and Other Sketches.</li> <li>Billy Budd, and Other Prose Pieces.</li> <li>Weeds and Wildings, With a Rose or Two.</li> <li>Essays.</li> <li>Uncollected Poems.</li></ul>