Mellville And Darwin's Writings On The Galapagos Islands

Part I of Essay
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 Is ....

Part II of Essay
.... the Galapagos islands, or "Encantadas," as he chooses to refer to them as and paints a picture of the Galapagos Islands using everyday terms. An important part of Mellville's style is that the he never directly describes the islands. "Take five-and-twenty heaps of cinders dumped here and there in an outside city lot" is how Mellville's description of the Galapagos Islands begins. This reduces the Galapagos islands from a large, nearly inconceivable place to objects of which most any reader can create a mental picture. When Mellville descri ....