Typee: A Romance of the South Seas: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
Typee: A Romance of the South Seas: author and translator credits, catalogue synopsis, subjects and links to the Gutenberg reading formats.
Typee: A Romance of the South Seas is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Melville, Herman (1819–1891).
Catalogue synopsis
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"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.
Book and edition facts
- Title: Typee: A Romance of the South Seas
- Author credits: Melville, Herman (1819–1891)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Adventure stories
- Indigenous peoples -- Fiction
- Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) -- Fiction
- Sailors -- Fiction
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- Category: Adventure
- Category: American Literature
- Category: Novels
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