This early, autobiographical adventure novel (1847) is a sequel to TYPEE, which preceded it by a year. Popular in its day, OMOO is a picaresque adventure that is suffused with Melville's disgust with the white missionaries who tried to impose their values on a culture they had no understanding of, and on colonialism in the South Seas in general. (According to Melville, "omoo" is the Polynesian word for "wanderer.")