Typee

Typee is a very interesting and enjoyable book, though it can be difficult to figure out how much is fiction, how much is anthropology and how much is conjecture.

Less than two husbands 2009

With bitterness, London wrote that all former strength and beauty has departed, and the valley of Typee is the abode of some dozen wretched creatures afflicted by leprosy, elephantiasis, and tuberculosis.

ARDENT HEART 2003

And now all this strength and beauty has departed, and the valley of Typee is the abode of some dozen wretched creatures, afflicted by leprosy, elephantiasis, and tuberculosis.

Chapter 10 1913

Typee is the abode of some dozen wretched creatures, afflicted by leprosy, elephantiasis, and tuberculosis.

Chapter 10 1911

Otherwise he might have been guilty of the beautiful exaggerations in Melville's "Typee" or the imaginative orgies in the latter's

A CLASSIC OF THE SEA 2010

Readers are taken aboard Melville's first whaling ship; to the Marquesas Islands that inspired his best-selling book about life among cannibals ( "Typee"); and to his adult relationship with fellow novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Herman Melville's Homoerotic Side Highlighted In New Book AP 2010

Melville went on to Tahiti and Hawaii and then returned home almost four years later with those tales of paradise, cannibals and sexual exploits that he published in "Typee" and "Omoo."

Melville's stormy seas Ron Charles 2010

Melville went on to Tahiti and Hawaii and then returned home almost four years later with those tales of paradise, cannibals and sexual exploits that he published in "Typee" and "Omoo."

Melville's stormy seas Ron Charles 2010

In "Typee," the hero of Melville's novel jumps ship and finds a sexual paradise on a tropical island, only to discover that he is living among cannibals.

Five Best 2008

Otherwise he might have been guilty of the beautiful exaggerations in Melville's "Typee" or the imaginative orgies in the latter's

A Classic of the Sea 1917