Typee : a peep at Polynesian life /
"In his first book -- a classic of travel and adventure literature -- Herman Melville drew upon his experiences in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands as a month-long guest/captive of the Typee people. An anthropological study of a culture that both impressed and alarmed the author, the 1846 na...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Mineola, New York :
Dover Publications,
2019.
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| Series: | Dover thrift editions.
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| Summary: | "In his first book -- a classic of travel and adventure literature -- Herman Melville drew upon his experiences in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands as a month-long guest/captive of the Typee people. An anthropological study of a culture that both impressed and alarmed the author, the 1846 narrative is also the exciting story of a stranded sailor's attempts to escape from an idyllic but ultimately stultifying existence"-- |
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| Physical Description: | pages cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780486831756 0486831752 |