Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life is American writer Herman Melville's first book, published in 1846, when Melville was 26 years old. Considered a classic...
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American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy...
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published in London in 1847, and a sequel to his first South Seas narrative Typee, also based on the author's experiences in the South Pacific. After leaving...
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Typee Mountain is a 2,897-metre (9,505-foot) summit in British Columbia, Canada. Typee Mountain is located in the Battle Range of the Selkirk Mountains...
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Nuku Hiva Campaign (redirect from Battle of Typee Valley)
his men on a second mission into enemy territory, this time overland to Typee Valley and with limited assistance from the Te I'i. The valley is a dense...
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Tai Pī (province) (redirect from Typee Valley)
lasted a total of four weeks was the subject of Herman Melville's first book Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. He arrived the day the French sailed into Nuku...
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James Leicester, and Al Stillman. It is based on Herman Melville's novel Typee, which was also the film's working title. The title song, "Enchanted Island"...
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Blackside hawkfish (redirect from Paracirrhites typee)
Binomial name Paracirrhites forsteri (J. G. Schneider, 1801) Synonyms Grammistes forsteri J. G. Schneider, 1801 Paracirrhites typee J. E. Randall, 1963...
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affair." Within a year after Melville's death in 1891, Moby-Dick, along with Typee, Omoo, and Mardi, was reprinted by Harper & Brothers, giving it a chance...
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known as Île Marchand and Madison Island. Herman Melville wrote his book Typee based on his experiences in the Taipivai valley in the eastern part of Nuku...
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live in Pacific island communities; as described by Herman Melville in Typee, or Harry Franck in the book Vagabonding Around the World. After enduring...
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Jonathan Demme's unrealized projects (section Typee)
In 1977, Demme planned to direct his own adaptation of Herman Melville's Typee, produced by his then-wife Evelyn Purcell. In 1987, it was reported that...
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their differences in dorsal fins: Stranger, Jackson, Hooky, Humpy, Cooper, Typee, Big Ben, Young Ben, Kinscher, Jimmy, Sharkey, Charlie Adgery, Brierly,...
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1842. Melville's experiences in the Marquesas are the source of his novel Typee.[citation needed] American Civil War portal Union Blockade "Potomac II (Ship)"...
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boat had put in at Nuku Hiva island, scene of Herman Melville's celebrated Typee some 60 years earlier, championing exactly the sort of primitive society...
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fire burned Harper's stock of Melville's unsold books, which consisted of Typee, 185; Omoo, 276; Mardi, 491; Redburn, 296; White Jacket, 292; Moby-Dick...
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v t e Herman Melville (works) Novels Typee (1846) Omoo (1847) Mardi (1849) Redburn (1849) White-Jacket (1850) Moby-Dick (1851) Pierre; or, The Ambiguities...
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presented his first two books, Typee and Omoo, as nonfiction, enough critics were able to identify plagiarism in them (especially Typee) from other works, both...
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which was published three years earlier, in 1851. Melville's 1846 novel Typee also was very popular at that time. A Presbyterian church was built in Melville...
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Melville, whose experiences in the Marquesas formed the basis for his novel Typee. Robert Louis Stevenson visited the Marquesas in 1888, and wrote about his...
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included Tom (who died 15 September 1930), Hooky, Humpy (died 1926/7), Cooper, Typee (died 1901), Jackson, Stranger, Big Ben, Young Ben, Kinscher (female), Jimmy...
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eater can be traced to this point in Western literature. Herman Melville's Typee (1846) is a semi-factual account of Melville's voyage to the Pacific Island...
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change.[citation needed] Tanselle discusses the example of Herman Melville's Typee. After the novel's initial publication, Melville's publisher asked him to...
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Paradise Regained, Martin Chuzzlewit, Melville's twin classics Omoo and Typee." The last scene, where Herb presents the Simpsons family with gifts for...
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commonly known as a buckeye, knuckle, or Alliance coupler. The AAR/APTA TypeE, TypeF, and TypeH couplers are all compatible Janney couplers, but used...
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Last of the Pagans is a 1935 MGM film based on the Herman Melville novel Typee (1846). The film was shot on location in Tahiti. Taro is a native of the...
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Windsor Harry Keller Enchanted Island Fayaway Allan Dwan Alternate title: Typee 1975 Tubby the Tuba Celeste Alexander Schure Voice role 1999 Picture This...
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$500,000 to the press. Peck and Huston intended to shoot Herman Melville's Typee in 1957, but the funding fell through. Not long after, the two had a falling-out...
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contracted with Herman Melville to publish Melville's first two books, Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847) in England; both books were presented as nonfiction...
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Somerset Maugham: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), "Rain," etc. Herman Melville: Typee (1846), Omoo (1847), etc. James A. Michener: Tales of the South Pacific...
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