Typee, a Romance of the South Sea: Illustrated, by Herman Melville
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Typee, a Romance of the South Sea: Illustrated, by Herman Melville
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Typee, a Romance of the South Sea is the first book by American writer Herman Melville, a classic in the literature of travel and adventure partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on the island Nuku Hiva, which Melville spelled as Nukuheva, in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands, in 1842. The title comes from the name of a valley there called Tai Pi Vai. It was Melville's most popular work during his lifetime, but made him notorious as the "man who lived among the cannibals." Typee may have provided the writers Robert Louis Stevenson, Louis Becke and Jack London with the themes and images of the Pacific experience: cannibalism, cultural absorption, colonialism, exoticism, eroticism, natural plenty and beauty, and a perceived simplicity of native lifestyle, desires and motives.
Typee, a Romance of the South Sea: Illustrated, by Herman Melville- Amazon Sales Rank: #9280990 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .49" w x 6.00" l, .65 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 214 pages
About the Author Herman Melville was an American novelist, poet, and lecturer best known for his classic novel Moby-Dick, as well as for his short fiction "Bartleby, the Scrivener," and the unfinished "Billy Budd, Sailor." Educated as a teacher and later as an engineer, Melville s writing was heavily influenced by his time aboard the whaling ship Acushnet, and his month-long captivity by Typee natives on Nuka Hiva island. Although Melville experienced success early in his writing career, public indifference to his masterpiece, Moby-Dick, resulted in waning attention, and his work was almost entirely disregarded by the time of this death in 1891. Melville s work experienced a revival in the early twentieth century, and he is now considered one of the pre-eminent American writers of his time. He is also one of the most-studied novelists, and was the first writer to be collected and published by the Library of America.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. I was there and it was like he said By Paula I found this book in the ship's library while sailing the South Pacific. Read this while visiting Nuku Hiva so I enjoyed it more because I was there and could visit the places. Based on on Melville's experiences while captured there after jumping ship escaping a bad tempered sailing captain. Though a fictionalized tale, there is no doubt Melville had first hand knowledge. He had empathy for the "noble savages" and disliked what the missionaries had done to the island. This book is available for free as a Kindle download.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Deeply conflicted By Mudiwa Typee attempts to be two things, an adventure story, and an anthropological commentary. In my opinion, it fails at both. The two purposes basically interfere with each other. As an adventure, the story does not satisfy a modern reader. It was a sensation when it first came out, due to the shock value of an exotic culture. So far, so good, even today.But the story plods along, with very little happening in the middle section. The first few chapters develop nicely, while the climax is rushed. The middle half of the book is a raw description of native life with no story motion whatsoever. That would be okay if the cultural business was illuminating. It is not. Melville constantly presents strange native customs with no explanation whatsoever. A frequent conclusion runs like "I never figured out what that was all about."So the inconclusive cultural commentary would be okay if the story moved along. As it is, neither purpose is realized, making the book a tantilizing, mundane puzzle.Having said all that, I did enjoy the book because I'm a sucker for this sort of setting, especially from "early" sources. Melville did live out something like what he described. So I am conflicted. I suppose that romantics like me, and scholars will enjoy and learn from Typee, while casual readers looking for a classic will be "underwhelmed".
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Jack London's Dream By Mark Faulkner Jack London's boyhood dream was to sail to Nuka Hiva (Typee) to relive Melville's tale of the pure lives of the people in this book. He built a yacht, "The Snark," and set out to live his dream.He was inspired by this tale of untouched humanity living in a tropical paradise. It inspired London. It inspired me.
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