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Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life

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Author(s):Herman Melville
Illustrator(s):Mead Schaeffer
Publisher(s): Dodd, Mead & Co.
Year Published: circa 1923
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Adventure
American
Far East
Fiction - novel
Sea Stories
Age Range: Ages 13-18: Young Adult
Pages: 289
OCLC: 4544584

Description

Loosely based on his own adventures, Herman Melville here tells the story of two American sailors who jump ship on the island of Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands and spend four months with the natives. While roundly condemned as fictitious at the time of publication, Melville’s companion Toby Greene later corroborated his account.

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Other Sequels

Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas, a Sequel to Typee (1924)

In this sequel to Typee, the narrator is taken off the island by a whaleman, but soon discovers the captain and mate are incompetent. Along with most of the crew he jumps ship in Tahiti and is briefly jailed as a mutineer. On his release he bums about the islands with a companion.

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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