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Cannibals
Shocking True Tales of the Last Taboo on Land and at Sea
Editor: Joseph Cummins
Hardbound with original dust jacket
271 pages
Publisher: The Lyons Press, Guilford, Connecticut
Date Published: 2001
In Cannibals, Joseph S. Cummins has assembled some of the most dramatic and controversial incidents of cannibalism in history. He draws from a powerful account of the disastrous Donner party expedition in the snows of the Sierra Nevada in 1847; from Nathaniel Philbrick's bestseller In the Heart of the Sea, about the wreck of the whaleship Essex in the South Pacific; and from Piers Paul Read's classic Alive, which relates the tragic aftermath of a 1972 Uruguayan airliner crash in the high Andes.
But Cummins also brings together little-known and equally shocking tales-how marauding gangs of cannibals, circa 1150 A.D., may have destroyed a flourishing southwestern civilization; how modern forensic evidence revealed the horrifying truth behind the vanished 1845 expedition of Arctic explorer John Franklin; how the Japanese practiced ritual cannibalism on Allied soldiers during World War II; and much more.
Cannibals is both a dramatic document and a tool to learn more about this mysterious and little-understood phenomenon.
This volume came from the collection of a discrete owner.
The book has been gently read, and the pages are clean and bright with gentle light wear to it's cover.
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