A semi-autobiographical account of the author's experiences in the Valley of the Typees on the island of Nuku Hiva, told through the character of Tommo, a sailor who jumps ship and lives for months among the valley's happy people.
year: 1972, 1996
call number/section: 1000
subjects: indigenous peoples, fiction, sailors, marquesas islands (french polynesia), fiction, captivity, prisoners, sea stories, adventure stories
Editions
Melville, Herman
Penguin (1972)
Schools: 1
Melville, Herman
Penguin Books (1996)
A semi-autobiographical account of the author's experiences in the Valley of the Typees on the island of Nuku Hiva, told through the character of Tommo, a sailor who jumps ship and lives for months among the valley's happy people.
Schools: 1