Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life by Herman Melville

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.

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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.