Typee: A Romance of the South Seas  by Herman Melville

First published in the year 1846, the present fictional novel ‘Typee: A Romance of the South Seas’ by American writer Herman Melville was his first book to publish. Considered a classic in travel and adventure literature, the narrative is partly based on the author’s actual experiences on the island Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands in 1842, liberally supplemented with imaginative reconstruction and adaptation of material from other books.