Melville, Herman,  1819-1891 <br/><br/>
Typee: A Romance of the South Seas 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typee  Release date is 1999-09-01 
<br/><br/>Dianne Bean and David Widger  Dianne Bean and David Widger 
<br/><br/> "Typee: A Romance of the South Seas" by Herman Melville is a narrative published in 1846. Based on Melville's experiences in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, this account follows his time living among a Polynesian tribe rumored to be cannibals. The book made Melville famous as "the man who lived among the cannibals," though questions arose about how much was fact versus fiction. Blending travel memoir with cultural observation, Typee sympathetically portrays indigenous life while criticizing European colonizers and missionaries. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Adventure stories Indigenous peoples -- Fiction Sailors -- Fiction Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) -- Fiction 
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