Title: Marquesan encounters
Description: Casts Melville's novels against the nineteenth-century travel narratives of various other missionaries and colonists, as well as the ethnographies of twentieth-century anthropologists.
Subjects: History, Intellectual life, Philosophy, Civilization, In literature, Marquesas Islands in literature, Melville, herman, 1819-1891, American literature, history and criticism, 19th century
Places: Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia), Nuka Hiva (French Polynesia), United States
People: Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Time periods: 1783-1865