erice 732 Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 Melville jumped ship at Nuku Hiva, in the Marquesas Islands, and spent a month with a tribe untouched by Western influence. That led to the radical defence of cannibalism in “Typee” (1846), his first book, as a form of justice no more barbaric than Britain’s erstwhile habit of displaying hung, drawn and quartered bodies. Since everyone saw the world through the prism of their own culture, Melville believed, no society could claim moral superiority over another. https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2019/07/18/born-200-years-ago-herman-melville-was-globalisations-first-great-bard Quote Link to post Share on other sites
waikiore 399 Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 Typee is my favourite of his books Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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