Ishi in Two Worlds, 50th Anniversary Edition - A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America (Paperback, 50th Anniversary Edition)


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The life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. For more than forty years, Theodora Kroeber's biography has been sharing this tragic and absorbing drama with readers all over the world.
Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and with terror of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughter house near Oroville, California. Finally identified as an Indian by an anthropologist, Ishi was brought to San Francisco by Professor T. T. Waterman and lived there the rest of his life under the care and protection of Alfred Kroeber and the staff of the University of California's Museum of Anthropology.

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OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD
The life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. For more than forty years, Theodora Kroeber's biography has been sharing this tragic and absorbing drama with readers all over the world.
Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and with terror of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughter house near Oroville, California. Finally identified as an Indian by an anthropologist, Ishi was brought to San Francisco by Professor T. T. Waterman and lived there the rest of his life under the care and protection of Alfred Kroeber and the staff of the University of California's Museum of Anthropology.

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General

Imprint

University of California Press

Country of origin

United States

Release date

October 2011

Availability

Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days

First published

October 2011

Authors

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Dimensions

203 x 133 x 20mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback - Trade

Pages

304

Edition

50th Anniversary Edition

ISBN-13

978-0-520-27147-0

Barcode

9780520271470

Categories

LSN

0-520-27147-5



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