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Typee, a Romance of the South Sea

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von: Herman Melville
1,99 €
Verlag:	Bookrix
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	07.06.2014
ISBN/EAN:	9783736817968
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	455

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Typee, a Romance of the South Sea is the first book by American writer Herman Melville. Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American novelist, poet, and writer of short stories. 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 &quote;man who lived among the cannibals.&quote;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.