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100 1 _aMelville, Herman,
_d1819-1891
245 1 0 _aTypee
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2009
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typee
500 _aRelease date is 2009-05-01
520 _a"Typee" by Herman Melville is a travel narrative published in 1846, based on the author's experiences in the Marquesas Islands in 1842. After deserting his ship, Melville lived among the Taipi people in a Polynesian valley, supposedly for four months. The book blends firsthand observation with imaginative reconstruction, offering sympathetic portraits of indigenous life while criticizing European colonizers and missionaries. Questions about the narrative's accuracy emerged immediately, though fellow castaway Richard Tobias Greene later corroborated key events. Melville's most popular work during his lifetime, it made him famous as "the man who lived among the cannibals." (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aAdventure stories
653 _aIndigenous peoples -- Fiction
653 _aSailors -- Fiction
653 _aMarquesas Islands (French Polynesia) -- Fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28656
999 _c69564
_d69564