Typee

The very first work by acclaimed author Herman Melville, Typee is a book of travel literature based on the writer's adventures around the islands of the South Pacific.

Although ostensibly a factual account of what he encountered, Melville peppered the entire text of Typee with significant imaginings as to the environment and the lay of the exotic lands he wandered. The nature of the natives and their practices - including that of cannibalism - was also exaggerated. Melville himself admitted ...