From the rear cover
Typee (1846) is the first 'romance' of the semi-autobiographical account of life in the Marquesas Islands in the 1840s. A blend of personal experience and the narratives of explorers and missionaries, it influenced many later writers on the Paciflc, including Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London. Melville himself deserted from a whaling ship in the islands and lived for four weeks among the inhabitants, observing and recording their way of life. Typee points up the wonders, the dilemmas, the 'fatal impact' of European encounter with the peoples of the Pacific. This edition offers an introduction that considers the book from a post-colonial perspective, and detailed annotation of Melville's allusions.
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- Title Typee
- Author Herman Melville; Ruth Blair (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 392
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
- Date 1996-09
- ISBN 9780192823076 / 0192823078
- Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.33 x 6.32 x 2.48 in (18.62 x 16.05 x 6.30 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Adventure stories, Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95045201
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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