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A review by neuschb
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life by Herman Melville
3.0
Pretty edgy for 1846, I imagine. Here are some of the less edgy bits I found interesting:
"Sailors are the only class of men who now-a-days see anything like stirring adventures; and many things which to fire-side people appear strange and romantic, to them seem as common-place as a jacket out at elbows" (xi).
"...however ignorant man may be, he still feels within him his immortal spirit yearning after the unknown future" (255).
"...in every case where Civilization has in any way been introduced among those we call savages, she has scattered her vices, and withheld her blessings" (291).
"Sailors are the only class of men who now-a-days see anything like stirring adventures; and many things which to fire-side people appear strange and romantic, to them seem as common-place as a jacket out at elbows" (xi).
"...however ignorant man may be, he still feels within him his immortal spirit yearning after the unknown future" (255).
"...in every case where Civilization has in any way been introduced among those we call savages, she has scattered her vices, and withheld her blessings" (291).