Adventure · 1846

Typee: A Romance of the South Seas

At one time the most popular of Melville's works, Typee was known as a travelogue that idealized and romanticized a mysterious South Sea island for readers in the ruthless, industrial, "civilized" world of the nineteenth century.

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First published: 1846
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