Typee - Couverture rigide

Melville, Herman

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0460041533 ISBN 13 : 9780460041539

Editeur : Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, 1974

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Présentation de l'éditeur

'Typee' is fact loosely disguised as fiction; Herman Melville's first book, it gives an account of his time spent as the captive of a cannibal tribe on Nuku Hiva, a Polynesian island swarming with scantily-clad maidens. Controversial for its criticism of the Christian missionaries who attempted to 'civilise' the islanders, 'Typee' is a first rate piece of travel writing and cultural anthropology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1974
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0460041533
• ISBN 13: 9780460041539
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible