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Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life During a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas
Typee A Peep at Polynesian Life During a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas
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 »
ISBN-13: 9780451525185
ISBN-10: 0451525183
Publication Date: 8/1/1964
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Signet Classics
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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