Typee - Herman Melville - Books - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781543169133 - February 17, 2017
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Typee Special edition

Herman Melville

Typee Special edition

Based on Melville's actual experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, this work was extremely popular, and provoked disbelief among its readers until the events it described were corroborated by Melville's fellow castaway, Richard Greene. While the book is based on fact, Typee is properly considered a work of fiction: the three week stay on which the author based his story is extended to four months, and Melville drew extensively on contemporary accounts by Pacific explorers to add cultural detail to what might otherwise have been a straightforward story of escape, capture and re-escape.


256 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released February 17, 2017
ISBN13 9781543169133
Publishers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 256
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 14 mm   ·   344 g
Language English  

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