Length11h 53m
About this audiobook
In the summer of 1842, a young sailor named Herman Melville deserted the whaling ship Acushnet on the remote Marquesan island of Nuku Hiva. With a companion known only as "Toby," he fled into the jungle-covered mountains, descending—exhausted, starving, and injured—into a valley said to be occupied by the Typee, a tribe of fierce warriors with a fearsome reputation: cannibalism.
To the narrator, "Tommo," the Typee at first appear as noble savages inhabiting an earthly paradise: a world of lush breadfruit groves, crystalline streams, and the sensuous, shawl-sailed canoe of the maiden Fayaway. Assigned a devoted valet, Kory-Kory, and treated as an honored guest by the chieftain Mehevi, Tommo finds himself seduced by a life free from the "ruthless, industrial, civilized world" .
Yet the garden has a shadow. Is he a guest—or a prisoner? Why is his leg mysteriously swelling, refusing to heal? And what lies beneath the taboo lids of the carved wooden boxes?
Simultaneously a rollicking adventure story, a scandalous erotic fantasy, and a radical anti-colonial polemic, Typee was the book that made Melville famous at twenty-six. Censored for its "unholy" depictions of Polynesian sensuality and its biting critique of missionaries, it remains a foundational text of the South Seas narrative.
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics, Action and Adventure
Length11 hrs 53 mins
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