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Mellville and Darwin's Writings on the Galapagos Islands
During the nineteenth century, two prominent writers, Herman Mellville
and Charles Darwin both voyaged to the Galapagos islands off the coast of
Ecuador. Both of these individuals wrote descriptive passages about the
physical attributes and atmosphere of the Galapagos Islands. The p ....
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.... of which most any reader
can create a mental picture. When Mellville describes the flora of the
Galapagos Islands, he compares it with drying "Syrian gourds," aching for water.
Mellville discusses the solitude of the Galapagos Islands in comparison with
Greenland, a familiar place of solitude, the clear water in terms of Lake Erie,
and the "azure ice" in terms of malachite. “They know not autumn” writes
Mellville, as if these “heaps of cinder” are conscious of anything at all. All
these segments of Mellvilles passage are illustrations of how Mellville creates
a personal relation ....
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