Herman Melville Typee

The young adventurous sailors, Tommo and Toby, abandon ship and flee into the jungle of an island in French Polynesia. But their feelings of victory will be short-lived. Because they are about to run straight into the hands of the Typee, the most feared of the battling cannibal tribes. Inspired by his own adventures, twenty-five-year-old Herman Melville wrote `Typee‘ (1846) as a blend of creative memoir, cultural commentary, and good story-telling. He would later tell his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne...

Engels | 11 uur 35 minuten (539 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

Luisterboek (digitaal)

Herman Melville Billy Budd, sailor

and other stories

Een jonge Engelse matroos uit 1797 wordt ten onrechte van muiterij beschuldigd.

Engels | 465 pagina's | Penguin Books, Harmondsworth [etc.] | 1982

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Herman Melville Redburn

his first voyage; being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, in the merchant service

Uitvoerig verslag van een scheepsjongen over zijn eerste zeereis per zeilschip in de eerste helft van de 19e eeuw

Fictie

Engels | 442 pagina's | Penguin Books, Harmondsworth [etc.] | 1986

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