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Typee by Herman Melville

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Typee
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Publisher: L. C. Page and Co.
Number of pages: 442

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Considered a classic in travel and adventure literature, the narrative is based on the author's actual experiences as a captive on the island Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands in 1842, and is liberally supplemented with imaginative reconstruction and adaptation of material from other books.

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