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Typee: Volume One, Scholarly Edition Paperback - 1992
by Herman Melville; G. Thomas Tanselle (Editor); Harrison Hayford (Editor)
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Typee is a fictional, but heavily autobiographical book by Herman Melville. Based on his own three weeks as a captive on Nuku Hiva, Melville's protagonist spends four months trapped on the island. Melville also fleshed out the story with details provided by contemporary explorers. The book was his most popular during his lifetime and provided significant groundwork for later tales of European and Pacific cultures meeting.
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SIX months at sea!
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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: Volume One, Scholarly Edition
- Author Herman Melville; G. Thomas Tanselle (Editor); Harrison Hayford (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 374
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Northwestern University Press, Evanston
- Date August 17, 1992
- ISBN 9780810101593 / 0810101599
- Weight 1.46 lbs (0.66 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 1.1 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 2.79 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 67011990
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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