Les Encantadas, ou Îles Enchantées

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Herman Melville first glimpsed the Galapagos Islands as a young seaman on the whaler Acushnet. Years later, after the failure of Moby-Dick, he tried to regain his lost popularity by writing a series ten of magazine sketches called "The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles," recalling the strange worlds he found there.