In addition to The Encantadas and Timoleon, this author wrote about his experience as a captive on Nukuheva, where he believed an infected wound on his leg kept him from being eaten, and another work in which a mutiny aboard a whaling vessel causes much of the crew to be stranded on Tahiti.  
Max the Dutchman and Jack Blunt are among the crewmembers of the Highlander who take the title character to Liverpool in one of this man's works, which also sees a notable literary example of spontaneous combustion.  This author of Redburn also wrote a work about a desolate group of islands home to the Rock Rodando and the Peruvian mestizo Hunilla, and another work about a Sicilian general who fought the Carthaginians.  In addition to The Encantadas and Timoleon, this author wrote about his experience as a captive on Nukuheva, where he believed an infected wound on his leg kept him from being eaten, and another work in which a mutiny aboard a whaling vessel causes much of the crew to be stranded on Tahiti.  For 10 points—name this author of Typee and Omoo who also wrote about Fedallah, Tashtego, Queequeg and Captain Ahab in his novel Moby-Dick.
Max the Dutchman and Jack Blunt are among the crewmembers of the Highlander who take the title character to Liverpool in one of this man's works, which also sees a notable literary example of spontaneous combustion.  
Herman {Melville} [accept {Redburn} before “{this} man”]