Typee
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"Typee" is the first "romance" of the South Seas, a 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 Pacific, including Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London. Melville himself deserted a whaling ship in the islands and lived for four weeks among the ... More
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Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
Binding | Paperback (106 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 392 |
ISBN-10 | 0192823078 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0192823076 |
Publication Date | 09/26/1996 |
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