{"product_id":"9783736817968","title":"Typee, a Romance of the South Sea: Illustrated","description":"Typee, a Romance of the South Sea 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, which Melville spelled as Nukuheva, in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands, in 1842. \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTypee may have provided the writers Robert Louis Stevenson, Louis Becke and Jack London with the themes and images of the Pacific experience: cannibalism, cultural absorption, colonialism, exoticism, eroticism, natural plenty and beauty, and a perceived simplicity of native lifestyle, desires and motives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BookRix","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135109349616,"sku":"9783736817968","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783736817968_p0.jpg?v=1763675049","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783736817968","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}