Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
Inspired by Melville’s own experiences on the high seas, this classic adventure tale pits two sailors against an island of cannibals After six months of relentless battering by the turbulent South Pacific, the whaling ship known as theDollyis beginning to resemble a swollen and cracking prison....
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Inspired by Melville’s own experiences on the high seas, this classic adventure tale pits two sailors against an island of cannibals After six months of relentless battering by the turbulent South Pacific, the whaling ship known as theDollyis beginning to resemble a swollen and cracking prison. For Tommo, it’s been six months of little to eat but stale biscuits, six months
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Format: Leather Bound
Publisher: The Franklin Library
Pages no: 300
Edition language: English
While known today for vengeful captain chasing a white whale, Herman Melville’s writing career began with a travelogue of his adventure on the Nuku Hiva and was his most popular work during his life. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life is a semi-autographical book that Melville wrote about his approxi...
If you're about to sail to the Marquesas, definitely read this!
Although this was only his first book, and considered something like fluff when compared to his magnum opus "Moby-Dick," Melville's superb command of the language and gift for interesting discursiveness was already nascent. An excellent read, in and of itself, but also for the purpose of charting Me...
I went into this not really knowing much about Melville (other than having read Moby Dick a few years ago) and really enjoyed it. Melville obviously spent quite a bit of time on the ocean and with the Typee's and his descriptions of them are fascinating. My favorite parts though were his description...
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