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… (more)
Language: English
Published in: 1846
Word count: 103,372 words (≈ about 7 hours)
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1900
Copyright: Public Domain
Sailors, pirates, nautical adventures and strange sea creatures: a list of stories from the sea.