Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846) is the first book by American writer Herman Melville, a classic in the literature of travel and adventure partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on the island Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands, in 1842. The title comes from the name of a valley there called Tai Pi Vai. It was Melville's most popular work during his lifetime, but made him notorious as the "man who lived among the cannibals."
- ISBN10 0486831752
- ISBN13 9780486831756
- Publish Date 30 September 2019 (first published 28 March 2014)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Dover Publications Inc.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 304
- Language English