Typee

A Romance of the South Seas

Herman Melville

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9785486252419
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Joseph Vernet and Wijnand Nuijen. Two sailors desert a whaler in the Marquesas and walk into a valley whose people treat them with perfect kindness and will not let them leave. Melville had done exactly this at twenty-two; the book made him famous as the man who lived among cannibals, his publisher cut the attacks on the missionaries, and he spent the rest of his life being asked whether it was true. Fifty-three plates of sail, storm and open sea by painters including Joseph Vernet and J. M. W. Turner carry the voyage from Devon waters to the Dutch and English fleets of 1805.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Preface
• Introduction to the Edition of 1892
• Chapter One. The Sea—Longings for Shore—A Land-Sick Ship—Destination of the Voyagers—The Marquesas—Adventure of a…
• Chapter Two. Passage from the Cruising Ground to the Marquesas—Sleepy Times Aboard Ship—South Sea Scenery—Land Ho—The…
• Chapter Three. Some Account of the Late Operations of the French at the Marquesas—Prudent Conduct of the…
• Chapter Four. State of Affairs Aboard the Ship—Contents of Her Larder—Length of South Seamen’s Voyages—Account of a…
• Chapter Five. Thoughts Previous to Attempting an Escape—Toby, a Fellow Sailor, Agrees to Share the Adventure—Last Night…
• Chapter Six. A Specimen of Nautical Oratory—Criticisms of the Sailors—The Starboard Watch Are Given a Holiday—The…
• Chapter Seven. The Other Side of the Mountain—Disappointment—Inventory of Articles Brought from the Ship—Division of…
• Chapter Eight. The Important Question, Typee or Happar?—A Wild Goose Chase—My Sufferings—Disheartening Situation—A…
• Chapter Nine. Perilous Passage of the Ravine—Descent into the Valley
• Chapter Ten. The Head of the Valley—Cautious Advance—A Path—Fruit—Discovery of Two of the Natives—Their Singular…
• Chapter Eleven. Midnight Reflections—Morning Visitors—A Warrior in Costume—A Savage Aesculapius—Practice of the Healing…
• Chapter Twelve. Officiousness of Kory-Kory—His Devotion—A Bath in the Stream—Want of Refinement of the Typee…
• Chapter Thirteen. Attempt to Procure Relief from Nukuheva—Perilous Adventure of Toby in the Happar Mountains—Eloquence…
• Chapter Fourteen. A Great Event Happens in the Valley—The Island Telegraph—Something Befalls Toby—Fayaway Displays a…
• Chapter Fifteen. Kindness of Marheyo and the Rest of the Islanders—A Full Description of the Bread-Fruit Tree—Different…
• Chapter Sixteen. Melancholy Condition—Occurrence at the Ti—Anecdote of Marheyo—Shaving the Head of a Warrior
• Chapter Seventeen. Improvement in Health and Spirits—Felicity of the Typees—Their Enjoyments Compared with Those of…
• Chapter Eighteen. Swimming in Company with the Girls of the Valley—A Canoe—Effects of the Taboo—A Pleasure Excursion on…
• Chapter Nineteen. Reflections After Marnoo’s Departure-Battle of the Pop-Guns—Strange Conceit of Marheyo—Process of…
• Chapter Twenty. History of a Day as Usually Spent in Typee Valley—Dances of the Marquesan Girls
• Chapter Twenty-One. The Spring of Arva Wai—Remarkable Monumental Remains—Some Ideas with Regard to the History of the…
• Chapter Twenty-Two. Preparations for a Grand Festival in the Valley—Strange Doings in the Taboo Groves—Monument of…
• Chapter Twenty-Three. The Feast of Calabashes
• Chapter Twenty-Four. Ideas Suggested by the Feast of Calabashes—Inaccuracy of Certain Published Accounts of the…
• Chapter Twenty-Five. General Information Gathered at the Festival—Personal Beauty of the Typees—Their Superiority Over…
• Chapter Twenty-Six. King Mehevi—Allusion to His Hawaiian Majesty—Conduct of Marheyo and Mehevi in Certain Delicate…
• Chapter Twenty-Seven. The Social Condition and General Character of the Typees
• Chapter Twenty-Eight. Fishing Parties—Mode of Distributing the Fish—Midnight Banquet—Time-Keeping Tapers—Unceremonious…
• Chapter Twenty-Nine. Natural History of the Valley—Golden Lizards—Tameness of the Birds—Mosquitoes—Flies—Dogs—A…
• Chapter Thirty. A Professor of the Fine Arts—His Persecutions—Something About Tattooing and Tabooing—Two Anecdotes in…
• Chapter Thirty-One. Strange Custom of the Islanders—Their Chanting, and the Peculiarity of Their Voice—Rapture of the…
• Chapter Thirty-Two. Apprehensions of Evil—Frightful Discovery—Some Remarks on Cannibalism—Second Battle with the…
• Chapter Thirty-Three. The Stranger Again Arrives in the Valley—Singular Interview with Him—Attempt to…
• Chapter Thirty-Four. The Escape
• The Story of Toby
• Note.
• About the Author