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<p><b><i>White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War</i></b> is the fifth book by American writer <a href="page.php?w=Herman_Melville">Herman Melville</a>, first published in London in 1850. The book is based on the author's fourteen months' service in the <a href="page.php?w=United_States_Navy">United States Navy</a>, aboard the frigate USS Neversink (actually ).</p>

<p>Although early biographers of Melville assumed the account was reliably autobiographical, scholars have shown that much in the book was taken and transformed from popular sea books.</p><p>
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