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- Emily Eakin, Embracing the Wisdom of a
Castaway
- Emily Eakin, Embracing the Wisdom of a
Castaway. Interned on Ellis Island in 1952 and facing
likely deportation, the Trinidadian critic C. L. R. James
pinned his hopes for staying in the US on Moby-Dick. His
Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of
Herman Melville and the World We Live In, is an
amalgam of brilliant critical analysis and desperate
personal pleading..