On Herman Melville’s fictionalized memoir of the cannibal islanders of the Marquesas. The tale begins when an ill-managed, foul, depressing whaler sails into the bay of a paradisal island. Two ...
Herman Melville knew — and probably hoped — that his first book, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846) was going to raise eyebrows. In a preface, the fledgling author observed that “there are some ...
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