Question

What three Melville novels drew on his life at sea

Answer 1

By the time Herman Melville began work on his third novel, Mardi (1849), he had already enjoyed popular and critical success with his first two sea narratives, Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847).

Answer 2

Herman Melville drew his initial three novels Typee, Omoo and Moby-D ick based on his life at sea.

Step-by-step explanation:

Typee(1846)- first book by Melville about the author's actual experiences on the island Nuku Hiva in the south pacific Marquesas islands in 1842 .

Omoo(1847) - a sequel to his first novel, Omoo is also an account of his South Pacific sea experiences. The narrator of this story boards a whaling ship on it's way to Tahiti, where a mutiny led to the imprisonment of a third of the crew in Tahiti.

Moby-D ick(1851)- Ishmael's accounts of his ship's captain Ahab's obsessive quest for Moby-D ick, a giant sperm whale that bit off his leg in the previous voyage.