A sailor jumps ship in the Marquesas and lives among a Polynesian tribe rumored to be cannibals. Melville's romantic South Seas adventure drawn from his own escapade.
Books mentioned in Typee (2)
A History of the Earth and Animated Nature by Oliver Goldsmith: “suggested to me the idea of a pictorial museum of natural history, or an illustrated copy of Goldsmith’s _Animated Nature_.”
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: “Robinson Crusoe could not have been more startled at the footprint in the sand than we were at this unwelcome discovery.”
Books that mention Typee (2)
The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London: “How often we had pored over the chart and centred always on that midmost bight and on the valley it opened—the Valley of Typee.”