PACHUCHE BET

PACHUCHE BET

by Herman Melville
PACHUCHE BET

PACHUCHE BET

by Herman Melville

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""AS THE SHIP 'DOLY' DOCKS INTO THE YARD AT NUKUHEVA PORT, TWO OF ITS SAILORS DECIDE TO RUN AWAY FROM ITS ATROCITIES. THEY ARE SCARED TO TRAVEL BACK ON THE WORN OUT SHIP ON A LIFE-LONG VOYAGE. INSTEAD, THEY WANT TO ENJOY LIFE WITH THE TRIBAL PEOPLE THERE. INITIALLY, WHEN THE TWO HAD JOINED THE SHIP, THEY WERE SHOWN MANY RED AND JUICY CARROTS. BUT, OVER THE PERIOD, THEY REALIZED THAT THE OFFICERS ABOARD WOULD OFTEN BREAK ALMOST EVERY RULE. THE TREATMENT GIVEN TO THE LOWER RANKS WAS HIDEOUS. EXPLOITATION HAD BECOME THE FIRST RULE OF CONDUCT FOR THE HIGH-RANKING OFFICERS. AS THE VOYAGE CONTINUED FOR A VERY LONG PERIOD, EVERYONE WAS ANXIOUS TO SEE THE LAND. WHILE TRAVELING TOWARDS THE MARKISUS ISLANDERS, TWO OF ITS SAILORS TOMO-THE AUTHOR AND HIS FRIEND TOBO DECIDE TO RUN AWAY. AS THEY DROPPED THE ANCHOR AT NUKUHEWA, THE CAPTAIN PERMITTED THEM TO STROLL AROUND THE PORT. THEY SAW A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO FULFIL THEIR PLAN. TO STAY AWAY FROM THE SHIP, THEY START RUNNING. THEY CANNOT AFFORD TO HALT AT ANY PLACE. INITIALLY, THEY ENTER THE TAIPI REGION. ALL THEY HAVE WITH THEM ARE A FEW LOAVES AND BISCUITS. THEY SURVIVE THE HARDSHIPS BUT AFTER TRAVELLING THUS FOR A WEEK OR SO, THE TAIPI DETAIN THEM. FOR FOUR MONTHS THEY REMAIN WITH THE TAIPI. HOW DID THEY SURVIVE DURING THIS PERIOD IS WORTH READING. "" डॉली जहाजावरील दोन खलाशी नूकूहेवा बंदरात जहाज आल्यावर जहाजावरून फरार होतात. आणि लपतछपत थेट नरभक्षक टैपी लोकांच्या प्रदेशात दाखल होतात. माणसाचं मांस खाणाऱ्या या जमातीच्या तावडीत सापडल्यानंतर त्यांचं नक्की काय होतं? या उत्कंठावर्धक अनुभवांची थरारक कहाणी...

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789353171964
Publisher: MEHTA PUBLISHING HOUSE
Publication date: 05/19/1905
Pages: 194
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.45(d)
Language: Marathi

About the Author

Herman Melville was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only twelve when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, and as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts (where he was the impetuous friend and neighbor of Nathaniel Hawthorne), and was hard at work on his masterpiece Moby-Dick.

Literary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, Billy Budd, Sailor, was left unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.

Date of Birth:

August 1, 1819

Date of Death:

September 28, 1891

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

New York, New York

Education:

Attended the Albany Academy in Albany, New York, until age 15
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