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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, 2019.
Series:Dover thrift editions.
Subjects:
Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) > Fiction.
Indigenous peoples > Fiction.
Sailors > Fiction.
FICTION / Classics.
Indigenous peoples.
Sailors.
French Polynesia > Marquesas Islands.
Adventure fiction.
Fiction.

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