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Typee: A Romance of the South Seas

Author
Herman Melville
Read by
Sebastian Blackwood
Language
English
Length
9 hours 56 minutes
ISBN
9781802560176
Published
15 July 2012
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Polynesia
  • adventure
  • cultural conflict
  • exotic
  • whaling
  • escape
  • native life
  • savagery
  • freedom
  • exploratio

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Sailor Tommo flees a whaler and finds refuge in Typee valley on a Polynesian island, drawn to its ease and wary of its dangers. Melville's South Seas adventure of cultural conflict and freedom's double edge. Spoken as when paradise holds you close enough that leaving becomes the real risk.

Author

Herman Melville (1819–1891) wrote the American epic that almost nobody wanted until it was too late. Moby-Dick began as a whale hunt and became scripture, encyclopaedia, sermon, and storm — a novel that thinks in every direction at once. Melville had been to sea as a young man; Typee made him briefly famous for Polynesian adventure, then the public cooled as his books grew stranger and more metaphysical. He died in relative obscurity.

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