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The captain and "the cannibal" : an epic story of exploration, kidnapping, and the Broadway stage /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fairhead, James, 1962- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2015]
Series:New directions in narrative history.
Subjects:
Morrell, Benjamin, > 1795-1839.
Morrell, Benjamin, > 1795-1839 > Travel > Papua New Guinea.
Dako.
Papua New Guinea > Description and travel.
Papua New Guinea > Discovery and exploration.
Ship captains > Connecticut > Biography.
Indigenous peoples > Papua New Guinea > Biography.
First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners > Papua New Guinea > History > 19th century.
Kidnapping > Papua New Guinea > History > 19th century.
Sideshows > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
HISTORY / Social History.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers.

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