TY - BOOK AU - Melville,Herman AU - Stedman,Arthur Griffin TI - Typee: A Romance of the South Seas AV - PS PY - 1999/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Adventure stories KW - Indigenous peoples -- Fiction KW - Sailors -- Fiction KW - Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) -- Fiction N1 - 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 N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1900 ER -