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Encantadas: Or Enchanted Isles (Bcl1-Ps American Literature)
Encantadas Or Enchanted Isles - Bcl1-Ps American Literature Author:Herman Melville "The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles" are a series of "sketches," or short prose works, about the Galapagos Islands. They are primarily written from Melville's own experience sailing around the islands; however, it should not be supposed that the narrator is supposed to be Melville himself. In fact, Melville originally published "The Encantadas" u... more »nder a pseudonym.
Before each sketch is a few lines of poetry, most of them from Edmund Spenser's poem The Faerie Queen.« less