01726cam a22003613u 4500 1900 UtSlPG 20260610133051.0 m cr n 260607r1999||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PS Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 Typee: A Romance of the South Seas Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 1999 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typee Release date is 1999-09-01 Dianne Bean and David Widger "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.) Original publication data not identified Adventure stories Indigenous peoples -- Fiction Sailors -- Fiction Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) -- Fiction Stedman, Arthur Griffin, 1859-1908 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1900 44011 44011