White-Jacket [SEP] publisher
ensues but ultimately Ushant is the sole remaining dissenter. He is flogged, put in chains, and held in the brig for weeks, but arrives in Norfolk harbor with his beard intact and a hero among his peers. White-Jacket takes a hair from Ushant's beard as a memento.
- Emperor Don Pedro II
Publication history.
"White-Jacket" was published in London by Richard Bentley on February 1, 1850, and in New York by Harper & Brothers on March 21, 1850. Melville
Books, , Pub date Sep 1981, trade paperback (black). Simultaneously published in Canada.
- 1982, UK, Victor Gollancz, , Pub date May 1982, hardcover (white dust jacket).
- 1982, UK, Victor Gollancz, , Pub date May 1982, trade paperback (white).
- 1983, UK, Methuen, , Pub date 1983, mass market paperback.
- 1983, USA, Bantam Books, , Pub date Oct 1983, mass market paperback. Yvonne Gilbert