Typee
I read Moby Dick all the way through for the first time last year and was glad to have finally set myself to enjoy Melville’s work. It takes a little more discipline than most novels or adventure stories but is well worth it!
A few weeks ago, I decided to pick up Typee which I own in a nice slipcase edition. It is a fictionalized account of Melville’s own experiences among the Typee people and I find it fascinating that his own life contained such interesting, risky, and exciting adventures. The book was thoroughly enjoyable, easy to read and full of interesting anthropological sidelights. Highly recommended!
The following picture illustrates what happens when the mom is a bookish sort who likes to get away of an evening for a little quiet reading and writing and dad makes and serves dinner…
Yep. Naked babies. Eating spaghetti. From the pot. On the patio. Sigh…