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The Metaphysical Tourist

David Sugarman on Herman Melville

by
The Editors
August 16, 2012

Herman Melville is known for many things, one of which is not his fateful trip to Jerusalem. He went in the aftermath of a disappointing response to his book Moby Dick. David Sugarman reports on what Melville did and did not find there.

From the editors of Tablet Magazine.