Herman Melville : a biography /
by Leon Howard.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)1951.
- xi, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
The open road -- At sea -- The Pacific: outward bound -- The Pacific: recoil -- Settling down -- The world of the mind -- Second growth -- Misdirections -- Magazine writer -- The quest for confidence -- Critic and commentator -- The customhouse -- Recollection and renown.