Herman Melville, born in NYC IN 1819, Son of a Merchant. At 17 embarked on a whaler which he deserted on reaching the Marquesas Islands & Lived for Months with Cannibals & later joined American Navy. Died 1891 at 72 Typee a Narrative of Marquesas Islands in Red & White Dustjacket with b/w Illustation on front, Volume No. 180 in Everyman’s Library, FICTION , Typee is one of the first and arguably the most intelligent contemporary account of Western and Polynesian Cu

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Herman Melville, born in NYC IN 1819, Son of a Merchant. At 17 embarked on a whaler which he deserted on reaching the Marquesas Islands & Lived for Months with Cannibals & later joined American Navy. Died 1891 at 72 : Typee a Narrative of Marquesas Islands in Red & White Dustjacket with b/w Illustation on front, Volume No. 180 in Everyman’s Library, FICTION , Typee is one of the first and arguably the most intelligent contemporary account of Western and Polynesian Cu

Everyman’s Library No. 180, Dent & Sons, London, Printed & Bound in Canada, 1943

Editor’s Introduction, Blank endpapers Light Fox, Fox to inner flap DJ .Typee is one of the first and arguably the most intelligent contemporary account of Western and Polynesian cultural interaction in the nineteenth century Pacific, with the themes and images that came to symbolise the Pacific experience: cannibalism, cultural absorption, colonialism, exoticism, eroticism, natural plenty and beauty, and a perceived simplicity of native lifestyle, desires and motives. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Good

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