Adventure
Typee: A Romance of the South Seas
Based on Melville's experiences in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, this account follows his time living among a Polynesian tribe rumored to be cannibals.
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About this book
"Typee: A Romance of the South Seas" by Herman Melville is a narrative published in 1846. Based on Melville's experiences in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, this account follows his time living among a Polynesian tribe rumored to be cannibals. The book made Melville famous as "the man who lived among the cannibals," though questions arose about how much was fact versus fiction. Blending travel memoir with cultural observation, Typee sympathetically portrays indigenous life while criticizing European colonizers and missionaries.
- Format
- EPUB
- Language
- English
- Length
- 393 pages
- Published
- 1 January 1846
- Publisher
- BoD - Books on Demand
- ISBN
- 9791041982431
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