Melville, Herman 1819-1891 creator Stedman, Arthur Griffin 1859-1908 text utu 1999 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typee Release date is 1999-09-01 Dianne Bean and David Widger Original publication data not identified Adventure stories Indigenous peoples -- Fiction Sailors -- Fiction Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) -- Fiction PS Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1900 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1900 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133051.0 1900