Captain and "the Cannibal"

An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, and the Broadway Stage

Autor: James Fairhead

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: Yale University Press

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele

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Sailing the uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became...

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Autor

James Fairhead

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2015

Stránek

392

EAN

9780300198775

ISBN

0300198779

Enbook ID

08877409

Vydavatel

Yale University Press

Hmotnost

738

Rozměry

243 x 166 x 31

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Sailing the 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 captive's perspective as from the American's. 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 Dako's assistance, and Dako seizing his only chance to return home to his unmapped island. Supported by rich, newly found archives, this wide-ranging volume traces the voyage to its extraordinary ends and en route decrypts Morrell's ambiguous character, the mythic qualities of Dako's life, and the two men's infusion into American literature-Dako inspired Melville's Queequeg, for example. The encounters confound indigenous peoples and Americans alike as both puzzle over what it is to be truly human and alive.

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