Front cover image for Typee : a peep at Polynesian life : during a four months' residence in a valley of the Marquesas : with notices of the French occupation of Tahiti and the provisional cession of the Sandwich Islands to Lord Paulet

Typee : a peep at Polynesian life : during a four months' residence in a valley of the Marquesas : with notices of the French occupation of Tahiti and the provisional cession of the Sandwich Islands to Lord Paulet

Herman Melville, Thomas B. Smith (Stereotyper), Wiley & Putnam (Publisher), John Murray (Firm) (Publisher), R. Craighead's Power Press (Printer)
Herman Melville's first book, partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on Nuku Hiva (which Melville spelled as Nukuheva) in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands

Print Book, English, 1846
Wiley and Putnam ; John Murray, Albemarle Street, New York, London, 1846