Redburn: His First Voyage's a novel by Herman Melville published on September 29, 1849, by Richard Bentley in London and on November 14, 1849, by Harper & Brothers in New York City. Overview The author returned to the tone of his first novels, Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847). Redburn's a semi-autobiographical novel concerning the sufferings of a refined youth among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool. This theme of a youth confronted by realities and evils for which he's un… (More on Redburn)