Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life Paperback - 1996
by Herman Melville; Introduction by John Bryant; Commentaries by John Bryant
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SIX MONTHS AT SEA! Yes, reader, as I live, six months out of sight of land; cruising after the sperm-whale beneath the scorching sun of the Line, and tossed on the billows of the wide-rolling Pacific-the sky above, the sea around, and nothing else!
From the rear cover
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. But Melville's story of Tommo, the Yankee sailor who enters the flawed Pacific paradise of Nuku Hiva, is also a fast-moving adventure tale, an autobiographical account of the author's own Polynesian stay, an examination of the nature of good and evil, and a frank exploration of sensuality and exotic ritual. This edition of Typee, which reproduces the definitive text and the complete, never-before-published manuscript reading text, includes invaluable explanatory commentary by John Bryant.
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- Title Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
- Author Herman Melville; Introduction by John Bryant; Commentaries by John Bryant
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date 1996-01-01
- ISBN 9780140434880 / 0140434887
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 7.72 x 5.05 x 0.67 in (19.61 x 12.83 x 1.70 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Adventure stories, Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95032699
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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