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Descrizione libro Condizione: New. Fine. Cloth, D-j. 2015. Originally published at $40. Codice articolo W96580b
Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Illustrated. The astounding saga of an American sea captain and the New Guinean nobleman who became his stunned captive, then ally, and eventual friendSailing in uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first outsider to encounter the inhabitants of a small island off New Guinea. The contact quickly turned violent, fatal cannons were fired, and Morrell abducted young Dako, a hostage so shocked by the white complexions of his kidnappers that he believed he had been captured by the dead. This gripping book unveils for the first time the strange odyssey the two men shared in ensuing years. The account is uniquely told, as much from the captives perspective as from the Americans.Upon returning to New York, Morrell exhibited Dako as a cannibal in wildly popular shows performed on Broadway and along the east coast. The proceeds helped fund a return voyage to the South Pacific-the captain hoping to establish trade with Dakos assistance, and Dako seizing his chance to return home with the only person who knew where his island was. Supported by rich, newly found archives, this wide-ranging volume traces the voyage to its extraordinary ends and en route decrypts Morrells ambiguous character, the mythic qualities of Dakos life, and the two mens infusion into American literature-as Melvilles Queequeg, for example, and in Poes Pym. The encounters confound indigenous peoples and Americans alike as both puzzle over what it is to be truly human and alive. Codice articolo DADAX0300198779
Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. In 1830 the celebrated Captain Morrell kidnapped Dako, a young nobleman from an island off New Guinea, then took him to America and exhibited him as a ?cannibal?. In this reconstruction of the two men?s interlaced odysseys, an anthropologist delves into a mass of archival material and examines the worldviews of the islanders and Americans, neither of whom initially viewed the other as entirely human. Codice articolo 507988
Descrizione libro Condizione: New. New dust jacket. Codice articolo C06M-00384
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Descrizione libro Hardcover, illus. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. First Edition; First Printing. Book and DJ New. NO notes, names or ANY markings. Unclipped, unpriced DJ; New Directions in Narrative History; 377 pages; The Captain and the Cannibal. Codice articolo 57091
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