Typee Herman Melville 9781463748012 Books
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Based on Melville's actual experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, this work was extremely popular, and provoked disbelief among its readers until the events it described were corroborated by Melville's fellow castaway, Richard Greene. While the book is based on fact, Typee is properly considered a work of fiction the three week stay on which the author based his story is extended to four months, and Melville drew extensively on contemporary accounts by Pacific explorers to add cultural detail to what might otherwise have been a straightforward story of escape, capture and re-escape.
Typee Herman Melville 9781463748012 Books
I read Typee some time ago. It was one of Herman Melville's early works. It tells a somewhat true story of his travels as a sailor. In this story he abandons his ship and slips onto an unknown island. Little did he know that it was full of cannibals! There was one tribe that was particularly aggressive that he tried to avoid, only to wind up in their village. He gives some good first hand accounts of primitive natives from the South Pacific region of the early 1800's. He never understood their psychology, but was able to describe the natives in terms of his observations. He felt like he was a prisoner on the island and with some great difficulty was eventually able to escape by finding another ship that would take him back to his civilization. If you are interested in anthropology you will find this book very fascinating. His writing style is crisp and moves along in a way that makes the book hard to put down.Product details
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Typee Herman Melville 9781463748012 Books Reviews
A great effort by one of the mainline romantic writers of the 1800's. I enjoy the personal feeling evoked by first person narrative. His desire to set the tone of the narrative by describing the scene and the characters and remain on track with the narrative displays a polished art. I read Moby Dick in high school. It was more intense with an overlying sense of a powerful primitive force at work. Melville's description of the Marquesan island tribe the Typee makes one wish they could spend their life in such an easy going beneficent culture. Alas that culture along with all the south sea island cultures fell to the onslaught of the European culture. We can't go back in time to experience such a life. We can vicariously experience in Melville's wonderful log.
A timeless "classic", plain and simple! For anyone who has ever lived in the mid- or South Pacific or any other similarly remote, tropical island setting, yet was forced to leave for economic or other reasons beyond their own control, this read will change you forever.
Fundamentally, this is the heartbreaking tale of a man exposed to a way of life and culture so deeply enchanting yet so foreign to his own that his memories of it (and his inability to ever return to it), would haunted him all the remaining days of his life. For me, having lived in Hawaii and American Samoa on several occasions over the years, this book was like none I'd ever read. Like his cherished memories of the South Pacific, Melville and his experience will remain with me all the days of my own life.
This book surprised me. The story was not that spell binding, it is not a cliff hanger. What surprised me was the English that was used. Considering when it was written much of the wording was very similiar to todays discussion. I was also interested in the subtle differences in polynesian words then and how they are today.
The writing style of the 19th century may put people off, but this book is definitely worth reading. It gives a first-hand account of how an isolated people lived, their customs, their food their religion and other details of the life of a Polynesian people in the early 18th century. Melville's writing style is full of dry humor, which makes the book more light-hearted than would be expected of a story of a man held as something of a prisoner by a foreign people. Although their is a lot of interesting detail of the way of life of one tribe on the island of Nukuheva, there are several questions that Melville could not answer; the most important of which was why the Typee people kept him as a virtual prisoner, while, at the same time, treating him as an honored guest.
If you didn't know this was fiction, you'd think it was the story of a real-life adventure - a sailor among benevolent cannibals. I hate to say that the plot is a bit thin (he falls in among the cannibals, lives with them for a few months and then escapes) because that's not the focus of the book. It's the details of how the Typee live that is the meat (no pun intended) of this story. I kept thinking of Margaret Mead's work in Tahiti as I read this. Absolutely fascinating!
I first read this book when I was in my teens and so began my dream to someday go sailing in the South Seas and try to capture some of the adventure so well described by Herman Melville. When I grew up and became a profesional photographer and film maker, I had the chance to both sail and visit some of the islands, but unfortunately Herman's world and the Typee Valley is all but a memory. None the less, I decided to read Typee again after so many years to see if it still inspired me and I found that it still invokes a wonderful feeling of a world we wish would still exist. Melville has a unique style of writing, which I miss in most of today's writing; he tell the story in a way that I almost feel I am there with him. It's a wonderful book that will never age and I highly recommended for those that like adventure and want to learn about a now lost paradise.
Great book on adventures in the South Seas among the natives---if you like this book you will also want to read
1. Faery Lands of the South Seas (1921) (With Active Table of Contents)
2. Twenty years in the Philippines (Illustrated) (1853)
3. Captain Quinton Being a Truthful Record of the Experiences and Escapes of Robert Quinton during his Life Among the Cannibals of the South Seas (1912)
4. James Chalmers, missionary and explorer of Rarotonga and New Guinea (1887) (Interactive Table of Contents)
5. The History of the Bonin Islands from the Year 1827 to the Year 1876, and of Nathaniel Savory, One of the Original Settlers
6. The life and adventures of Alexander Selkirk the real Robinson Crusoe a narrative founded on facts (1829)
7. The Sandalwood Trade and Traders of Polynesia (1862 Pamphlet)
8. Philippine Folk Tales [Illustrated]
9. Lost Island (1918) (With active table of contents)
10. The Mystery of Easter Island The Story of an Expedition (1919) (Linked Contents)
I read Typee some time ago. It was one of Herman Melville's early works. It tells a somewhat true story of his travels as a sailor. In this story he abandons his ship and slips onto an unknown island. Little did he know that it was full of cannibals! There was one tribe that was particularly aggressive that he tried to avoid, only to wind up in their village. He gives some good first hand accounts of primitive natives from the South Pacific region of the early 1800's. He never understood their psychology, but was able to describe the natives in terms of his observations. He felt like he was a prisoner on the island and with some great difficulty was eventually able to escape by finding another ship that would take him back to his civilization. If you are interested in anthropology you will find this book very fascinating. His writing style is crisp and moves along in a way that makes the book hard to put down.
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