The Encantadas Audiobook (Free)

The Encantadas (or Enchanted Isles), is a series of ten descriptive sketches, and a reminiscence from Melville’s sailor times revealing the ecologically pristine Galapagos Islands as both enchanting and horrifying. Containing some of Melville’s most remarkable prose, The Encantadas were a critical success at a time when Melville’s fortunes were down. After publication, the brand new York Dispatch cited the chapters as universally regarded among the most interesting papers of that popular Journal, and each successive chapter was go through with avidity by hundreds. The reviewer known as the sketches sort of mixture of ‘Mardi’ and ‘Robinson Crusoe’–though a lot more interesting than the first named function.