Who wrote Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life?
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Correct answer: B. Herman Melville
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Melville's first book (1846), drawn from his 1842 stay in the Taipi valley of Nuku Hiva after deserting a whaler. Omoo (1847) followed.
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