<DIV><B>Melville?s continuing adventures in the South Seas?now for the first time in Penguin Classics</B><p> Following the commercial and critical success of <I>Typee</I>, Herman Melville continued his series of South Sea adventure-romances with <I>Omoo</I>. Named after the Polynesian term for a rover, or someone who roams from island to island, <I>Omoo</I> chronicles the tumultuous events aboard a South Sea whaling vessel and is based on Melville?s personal experiences as a crew member on a ship sailing the Pacific. From recruiting among the natives for sailors to handling deserters and even mutiny, Melville gives a first-person account of life as a sailor during the nineteenth century filled with colorful characters and vivid descriptions of the far-flung locales of Polynesia.<BR><BR></DIV>