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Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Thorndike Press Large Print Perennial Bestsellers Series)
Typee A Peep at Polynesian Life - Thorndike Press Large Print Perennial Bestsellers Series Author:Herman Melville Typee is the first "romance" of the South Seas, a semi-autobiographical account of life in the Marquesas Islands in the 1840s. A blend of personal experience and the narratives of explorers and missionaries, it influenced many later writers on the Pacific, including Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London. This edition offers an Introduction th... more »at considers the book from a post-colonial perspective, and detailed annotation of Melville's allusions.« less