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Typee [Folio Society] Book

Typee is Melville's first book, partly based on his actual experiences as a "beachcomber" on Nuku Hiva (which Melville spelled as Nukuheva) in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands. It was Melville's most popular work during his lifetime.Typee is one of the first and arguably the most intelligent contemporary account of Western and Polynesian cultural interaction in the nineteenth century Pacific, and provided many later writers (such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Louis Becke and Jack London) with the themes and images that came to symbolise the Pacific experience: cannibalism, cultural absorption, colonialism, exoticism, eroticism, natural plenty and beauty, and a perceived simplicity of native lifestyle, desires and motivesRead More

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  • 0460041533
  • 9780460041539
  • Herman Melville
  • Folio Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 320
  • Reprint
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